The archive

The archive

A living index of Glow After’s reporting, dispatches, conversations, and field notes by issue and subject.

A living index of Glow After’s reporting, dispatches, conversations, and field notes by issue and subject.

AMSTERDAM / CULTURE

Inside Museum Van Loon: How Amsterdam’s Wealthiest Families Lived

A 17th-century mansion, a remarkable wedding gift and a family with ties to Dutch royalty. Inside one of Amsterdam’s most fascinating historic homes.

by Maria Pri

THE GLOW LIST / 04

POLINA KADILNIKOVA

Meet Polina Kadilnikova, the Central Saint Martins graduate turning childhood memories, unexpected materials and personal history into fashion.

by Glow After

ART / STOCKHOLM

The Stories We Inherit: Inside Lebohang Kganye’s World at Fotografiska

At Fotografiska Stockholm, South African artist Lebohang Kganye brings family memories, folklore and photography to life in a house where nothing is quite as it seems.

Glow After Editorial

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELF

The Art of Becoming Yourself: Who Are You, Really?

On self-concept, the people we think we are, the people we pretend to be, and the ones we haven't met yet.

Glow After Editorial

PARIS FASHION WEEK

Zimmermann Is Already Planning Our Next Summer

Butterflies everywhere, very good flat shoes, and a few reasons to start making summer plans. Glow After at Zimmermann SS27 in Paris.

by Maria Pri

Fashion & Freedom

Dressed to Go Somewhere

At Palais Galliera, masculine dress codes appear in silk jackets, cycling clothes and a cartoon that needs labels to tell its subjects apart.

By Maria Pri

THE GLOW LIST / 03

GRACE CARTER

Music that you can really feel.

Glow After

THE GLOW LIST / 02

OLENA TOLSTOKORA

Art that takes you back to childhood

Glow After

THE GLOW LIST / 01

ALEX KHABBAZI

Making analogue work for a very digital world.

By Maria Pri

ART / DIGITAL CULTURE

What Does a Machine Dream About?

Eli Cortiñas’ new exhibition at Madrid’s Reina Sofía got us thinking about a slightly uncomfortable question: how much of our taste is actually ours?

By Maria Pri

ART HISTORY

A Little History of Flowers in Art

Tulip mania, impossible bouquets, Van Gogh’s yellow obsession, and Monet’s garden.

Anastasia Tesler

MARKETING, BUT FASTER

CHINA ISN’T WAITING FOR YOUR BRAND STORY

What Chinese social commerce understands about speed, creators and actually selling things.

By Kristina Kalashnikova

BRANDING THAT BECAME CULTURE

HOW AN AD BECAME A SYMBOL OF SPAIN

How a roadside ad for brandy became one of Spain’s most recognisable cultural icons.

By Kristina Kalashnikova

MOSCOW / 01

A Piece of Neo-Gothic Moscow Hiding on Malaya Gruzinskaya

Red brick, sharp spires and stained glass. One of Moscow’s most unexpected architectural landmarks has a history almost as striking as its façade.

By Maria Pri

ARTIST PROFILE / 01

Why Do Yoshitomo Nara’s Kids Look So Angry?

The story behind Yoshitomo Nara’s big-eyed children. From a childhood in northern Japan and a lifelong obsession with music to Germany, protest art and one of the most recognisable faces in contemporary art.

By Maria Pri

BEAUTY / MARKETING

The Ordinary Built a Giant Salmon for Its New Eye Cream

A chrome fish, tins full of skincare science and a vegan take on one of beauty’s buzziest ingredients: inside The Ordinary’s London pop-up for its first eye cream.

By Maria Pri

RUNNING / CULTURE

New Balance Turned a Run Club Into a Dinner Party

In Copenhagen, New Balance put its latest running shoe around a communal table - with coffee, pasta and homemade running gels. It says quite a lot about what running culture has become.

By Maria Pri

NEW YORK / CULTURE

Dior and A24 Are Getting Into Theatre Together

A two-year partnership puts Dior inside one of New York’s oldest Off-Broadway theatres.

By Maria Pri

BERLIN / CULTURE

Cattelan, After Dark

Maurizio Cattelan has arrived at Neue Nationalgalerie.

By Maria Pri

LONDON / CULTURE

London Is In Design Mode

London Design Festival is underway, with exhibitions, installations and temporary projects appearing across the city through 20 September.

By Maria Pri

BOSTON / STYLE

Ayo Edebiri and New Balance Go Back to Boston

Campaign that didn’t really need a complicated concept.

By Maria Pri

Lifestyle / 01

15 Workout Studios Worth Knowing Around the World

From a bamboo yoga shala in Bali to a red-lit hot Pilates room in Paris, these are the spaces making the case that where you work out matters too.

Maria Pri

Creative Practice / 02

Jewellery That Feels Like Summer at the “dacha”

Rassvet Detail turns pea pods, beans and old watering cans into tiny silver souvenirs of childhood summers.

By Maria Shumskaya

Creative Practice / 01

Creative Practice: Wearable Art, Made from Plants

Katerina Shukshina turns flowers, vegetables and garden plants into fleeting pieces of wearable art.

By Maria Shumskaya

Places & Stories / 01

Bringing an Abandoned Estate Back to Life

Flowers in the Estate brings temporary floral installations into forgotten historic houses, allowing them to live again for a few days.

By Maria Shumskaya

Culture / Psychology / 01

Your feed is more personal than your think

The things we watch every day don’t disappear when we close the app. They shape what feels normal, desirable, frightening - and eventually, a little bit of who we become

By Maria Pri