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Enchanted Lotus earrings in pink gold with white diamonds, De Beers. Gold necklace, Magdalena Frackowiak Jewellery. Top, Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane.

Glass meets the Polish beauty Magdalena Frackowiak

January 20, 2017

The Golden Girl – Glass meets the Polish beauty Magdalena Frackowiak INDUSTRY icon, Victoria’s Secret Angel and now a designer of an all-gold eponymous jewellery line. In between her infatuating laughter and...

Glass exclusive – we speak to the illuminating artist Cai Guo-Qiang

Glass Archive

October 14, 2016

Archive, Art, Feature

Explosions in the Sky – How illuminating artist Cai Guo-Qiang is bridging the gap between China and the Middle East CAI Guo-Qiang’s art has always been successful at drawing attention. His largest audience t...

Marsyas, Tate Modern. London - UK, 2002. Design by Anish Kapoor & Cecil Balmond. Photograph courtesy of Balmond Studio

From the archive – Glass talks to Cecil Balmond one of the world’s leading designers

Christian Parreno

September 9, 2016

Archive, Design, Feature

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From the Glass archive Designing “the next” – Cecil Balmond, one of the world’s leading designers, talks to Glass about the power of mathematics, the negotiations of expression and growing forms “The harm...

From the archive – Glass interviews Britain’s leading architect Sarah Wigglesworth

Regner Ramos

September 2, 2016

Architecture, Archive, Design, Feature

In Sensible Spirits – Britain’s leading architect Sarah Wigglesworth on how a sustainable approach to building and designing can not only benefit people but also inspire them SITTING in a bright dining room...

Front cover, An internally displaced women in the Central African Republic, where over 400,000 people have been displaced by conflict (2015)

From the archive – Glass talks to Michel Gabaudan, president of Refugees International

Natalie Egling

August 26, 2016

Archive, Culture, Feature, Human Rights

From the Glass Archive: A World in Crisis – Glass talks heartbreak and hope with Refugees International President Michel Gabaudan IT’S an image seared onto our brains – much like Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer Priz...

From the archive – Glass talks to four of the greatest Olympic athletes

Regner Ramos

August 19, 2016

Archive, Feature

Nationality, Identity, and Humanity: Reflections on the Olympics – Glass asks four of the greatest Olympic athletes and an anthropologist for their views on the social impact of the world’s greatest show EVE...

A Moment in Time, Photography by Vincent Cui

From the archive – Glass explores the ancient Beijing hutongs with Shu Yi, renowned writer and activist

Glass Archive

August 11, 2016

Archive, Feature

A moment in time – Shu Yi, renowned writer and activist, takes Glass on a trip through the ancient Beijing hutongs and argues his case for their survival TOURISTS take rickshaw rides through the narrow stree...

Front Cover. Ruan in her last film, Civil Wind

From the Archive – Glass looks the legendary talent and legacy of screen star Ruan Lingyu

Glass Archive

August 5, 2016

Archive, Culture, Feature

Imitation of Life – Silent film actress Ruan Lingyu became a screen icon far ahead of her time. Glass examines the legendary talent and legacy of one of China’s greatest movie stars RUAN Lingyu had yet...

From the Glass Archive – Surrealist photographer and installation artist Sandy Skoglund talks to Glass

Glass Archive

July 29, 2016

Archive, Art, Feature

Flights of fancy – Surrealist photographer and installation artist Sandy Skoglund talks to Glass about green cats, the beauty of plastic and the pursuit of learning IN her seminal collection of essays, On Ph...

An Amnesty International vigil for Raif Badawi in Vienna, Austria. January 2015. The Saudi arabian government sentanced Raif Badawi to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes in May 2014. He was convicted of insulting Islam through his writings and on his website, which was set up to encourage public debate

United We Stand – Glass talks to Salil Shetty Secretary General of Amnesty international

Nicola Kavanagh

July 1, 2016

Archive, Feature

United We Stand – Glass asks Amnesty International how their uniting of voices is bringing about remarkable results around the world AMNESTY International is one of the largest and most powerful bodies promo...

From the Archive – Glass celebrates … Lanvin

Glass Archive

May 13, 2016

Archive, Fashion, Feature

LEGENDARY fashion house Lanvin bloomed from one mother’s love for her daughter. Since then, the rise and rise of Lanvin has encompassed some of the most celebrated collections and fragrances of the last century...

Chu Teh-Chun (Zhu Dequn, B.1920), Vertige Neigeux, Painted in 1990-1999, oil on canvas, diptych, each 200 x 200 cm, overall 200 x 400 cm, The Painting was sold for HK$ 45,460,000 at Christies Hong Kong Asian Contemporary Art & Chinese 20th Century Art Sale on the 29th of November 2009, Courtesy of Christie's Images Ltd

From the Glass Archive – The Power of Vision: how China became a major art world player

Bruna Volpi

April 29, 2016

Archive, Art, Culture, Feature

The Power of Vision – Part two of a Glass exploration to reveal just how China became one of the most powerful art markets in the world A prosperous present IN THE last ten years we have seen a phenomenal r...

Actress Zhang Zi in Elie Saab Haute Couture, Photograph courtesy of Elie Saab

Glass investigates the rise of haute couture in China

Glass Archive

April 22, 2016

Archive, Fashion, Feature

Couture in China – Glass investigates the rise of couture in China and asks whether Asia could provide a lifeline for fashion’s highest art form HAUTE couture, French for “high sewing” has long been synonymous...

Yu Youhan, Mao and His Friends from the Third World, 1992,

From the Glass Archive: Rethinking China – Glass looks at the country’s love of philosophy

Jack Aldane

April 15, 2016

Archive, Culture, Feature

Rethinking China – “Study the past if you would define the future” – Confucius (551 – 479 BC) MODERN China adores education. Learning for Chinese students constitutes an immemorial praxis of the highest cultur...

From the Glass Archive – we look at the work of the Red Cross

Glass Archive

March 23, 2016

Archive, Culture, Feature, Human Rights

Ray of hope – Humanitarian crises, fundraising during a recession and overcoming corruption? All in a day’s work for the Red Cross THE Red Cross is one of the most recognised humanitarian organisations...

Thinking things right – Glass talks to Sara Pantuliano of the Overseas Development Institute

Nicola Kavanagh

January 29, 2016

Archive, Feature, Human Rights

Thinking things right – Glass learns about the new role of aid in the modern era, better methods for its delivery and how hair extensions are giving subjugated women their dignity back Within two minutes of ...

Jean-Paul Goude and Antonio Lopez, Maternity dres for Grace Jones, 1979

Stylish revolt – how post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it

Peter Yeoh

October 16, 2015

Archive, Art, Feature

A Stylish Revolt – Post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it in irreverent ways. Peter Yeoh discusses the movement’s legacy with some of its most celebrated artists and design historian Glenn ...

Transforming lives through love

Glass Archive

October 9, 2015

Archive, Photography

Inspirational photojournalist Stephen Shames talks to Glass about his astonishing career, the power of photography and making lemonade when you’re given lemons More than a decade ago, photographer Stephen Sh...

Moments in time

Nicola Kavanagh

October 2, 2015

Archive, Art, Feature, Photography

Twice president of Magnum, who died in June this year, photographer Charles Harbutt talks us through an extraordinary career and its seminal moments. Glass celebrates the career of this eminent image maker J...

In focus – rapturous revolution

Lauren Weinberg

September 18, 2015

Archive, Art, Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Photography

Master of the Lens: Helmut Newton In Focus To utter the name Helmut Newton is to evoke a black and white world of predatory, self-aware women more at home in the cabarets of Weimar Germany than the glossy ...

Power play

Nicola Kavanagh

September 11, 2015

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

“The purpose of playing,” says Hamlet, “Is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” And so it is...