The original IT Girl
“This girl was the real thing. Someone to stir every pulse in the nation”
F Scott Fitzgerald
Clara Bow was Hollywood’s first sex symbol, predating Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe for being unashamedly fe...
Yellow Frosted Willow
The actress Anna May Wong achieved global stardom against a back drop of racism, bigotry and sexism. Her considerable self belief and will power would be the only things that maintained her at a time when t...
Turkish delight – Glass talks to photo-artist Jamie McLeod as he returns with a new show, Ottoman Fight Club, in London
Following his 2010 show, Jack Off Johnny, the photo-artist Jamie Mcleod returns to the Dalston Superstore, London, this month with a new exhibition, portraits of Turkish oil wrestlers, entitled Ottoman Fight Cl...
A year long date with beauty
How many teenage fantasies and workmen’s dreams have begun with a picture from a calendar? Miss August and Mr (whoever he) May (be) have kept smiles on the faces of innocent girls and jaded workers from Janua...
No ordinary muse – Glass interviews that charming man Roy Anthony Brown
SEAMLESSLY and, apparently, effortlessly, Roy Anthony Brown, possessed with huge natural charm, unassuming affability and a gentle nature, has been a constant figure throughout one of the most exciting epochs i...