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Susan Sarandon honoured at Hong Kong’s Art Basel

March 19, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Don't Miss: Film, News

The Liberatum Cultural Honour was awarded to Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandan at a dinner hosted at Upper House, Hong Kong, this week. Celebrating the actress’ outstanding contribu...

Secrets of the house

Glass Archive

March 13, 2015

Archive, Culture of Commerce, Feature

Habitat – Brothers Pier Luigi and Sergio reveal five secrets of the house of Loro Piana, which was established in 1924 having grown from a family business which started in the textile district in ...

PFW AW15: Alexander McQueen

Livia Feltham

March 10, 2015

Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

This season in Paris Sarah Burton’s reminiscent recollection of a very McQueen-ian Victorian romance was a safe bet to ensure another agreeable collection. For all the admittedly glorious grandiose touches, isn...

New Model Army – Glass meets Aly Turska

Justin van Vliet

March 10, 2015

Culture, Feature

In the latest in our series, Glass catches up with 21-year old model, Aly Turska from Wroclaw, Poland who is with Profile Model Management London. How did you become a model? I went with my mum to an ag...

Bally’s Wes Anderson-inspired AW15 collection

Kim Ing

March 9, 2015

Don't Miss: Theatre, News

An attitude of nonchalance and retrospective eccentricity, as inspired by the films of Wes Anderson, provide the platform for Bally’s AW Women's collection. Bally’s three principles of Innovation, Functi...

The art and artifice of Man Ray – Glass looks at the painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, poet, philosopher

Lauren Weinberg

March 6, 2015

Archive, Avant Art, Culture, Feature

The art and artifice of Man Ray – Glass looks at the painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, poet, philosopher Painter, photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, poet, philosopher – Man Ray was the quintessenti...

Bottega Veneta’s new film – Emotion of Sound

Anna Coughlan

March 4, 2015

Don't Miss: Film, News

Bottega Veneta has recently released a short film that showcases Tomas Maier’s SS15 collection on dancers. The film is entitled Emotion of Sound and its purpose is to create a feast for the senses though the us...

Image and time

Xenia Founta

March 4, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

Glass visited the Greek Film Archive in Athens to attend Image and Time, Andrei Tarkovsky, a comprehensive retrospective covering the entire filmography of the eminent Russian filmmaker. A highlight of t...

Glass celebrates its fifth anniversary during London Fashion Week

Livia Feltham

March 3, 2015

Archive, Culture, Culture of Commerce, Dining, Drinks, Feature, Food & Drink, Glass Celebrates, News

The climax of London Fashion Week this season saw Glass not only raising a perfectly prepared D1 London Gin cocktail to another successful season but also in celebration of our fifth anniversary as one of Londo...

Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano

Glass Archive

February 27, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Books, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News, Photography

Dream-weaver – the surreal eye. Glass speaks to the extraordinary photographer Bill Silano The extraordinary work of Bill Silano marked a new era in fashion photography, but having shied away from the spotli...

LFW AW15: street style fashion

Don Carlo

February 24, 2015

Culture, Feature

Taking a break from shooting the backstage and catwalk action for this season’s LFW for Glass Magazine, photographer Don Carlo captured some of the uniquely stylish visitors striking a pose in the...

Renzo Piano – Glass speaks to a master about working out the secrets of the physical world

Christian Parreno

February 20, 2015

Archive, Culture, Glass Design

Renzo Piano – Glass speaks to a master about working out the secrets of the physical world “The past is a safe refuge. The past is a constant temptation. And yet the future is the only place we have to go, i...

New York City’s three Chinatowns spotlighted in celebration of Lunar New Year

Louise Lui

February 19, 2015

America, Culture, New York, News, Travel

In celebration of the Lunar New Year, NYC & Company will spotlight New York City’s three Chinatown neighbourhoods—Sunset Park in Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Chinatown and Flushing in Queens. NYC & Company is ...

Sotto Voce at Dominique Lévi London

Fausta Maria Bolettieri

February 18, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, News

The abstract white relief is the common denominator of the show Sotto Voce currently at Dominique Lévy Gallery in London. Sotto Voce will take your breath away, guiding the spectator through they history and pr...

Magnificent obsession – Photographer Lee Miller and a life uncensored

Lauren Weinberg

February 12, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Beauty, Books, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, Photography

Magnificent obsession – Photographer Lee Miller and a life uncensored Mention Lee Miller’s name and the image of an icy, ethereal blonde comes to mind, her exquisite profile shimmering in the aura of a Steic...

Books, babies and Banana – Glass talks to actor Georgia Henshaw about her brilliant career

Arjun Sajip

February 12, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

Glass had a lot of fun chatting to Georgia Henshaw, the animated 21-year-old who cut her teeth on Casualty, The Bill and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, before moving onto Skins and Waterloo Road. She ...

The Reality of the Snowman: Peter Regli’s Snow Monsters in NYC

Emily Rae Pellerin

February 11, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, New York, News, Travel

Northward facing, in the immense shadows of the Flatiron Building and the (however urban-sparse) trees of Madison Square Park, are a flock of new sculptural residents. In conjunction with Dominque Lévy Galle...

Ruven Afanador’s Ángel Gitano – Glass reviews the NYC-based Colombian photographer’s latest show – The Men of Flamenco

Emily Rae Pellerin

February 10, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Travel

Glass reviews the NYC-based Colombian photographer’s latest show – The Men of Flamenco New York City’s upper east side Throckmorton Fine Art is exhibiting, for the fourth time, the images of NYC-based Colomb...

The art of eating

Sean Sheehan

February 9, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Dining, Feature

Tate Britain came up with a logical idea as to where best to eat after appreciating an art show when it commissioned the artist Rex Whistler in the 1920s to decorate the gallery’s Refreshment Room. He spent eig...

Verónica Echegui – the new Penélope Cruz? Glass catches up with the rising Spanish star

Arjun Sajip

February 6, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Television, Feature, Glass Talents, News

Verónica Echegui – the new Penélope Cruz? Glass catches up with the rising Spanish star Being billed by many as “the new Penélope Cruz”does not faze Verónica Echegui, who made her name in Bigas Luna’s My Nam...

Sleepy time down South – Glass talks to BAFTA-winning filmmaker Nick Broomfield

Arjun Sajip

February 5, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film

Sleepy time down South – Glass talks to BAFTA-winning filmmaker Nick Broomfield Veteran filmmaker Nick Broomfield is known for his probing, perceptive documentaries, and has over thirty films to his name, wi...