​Ever-acquisitive Frasers Group is back in the news. This time its focus is on buying shopping centres rather than its appetite for individual retail brands, reportedly lining up to buy two urban centres for £100m.

​Klarna has unveiled Paris Hilton as its new global face with an upcoming campaign featuring the “Y2K icon” that’s been created in collaboration with Hilton’s next-gen media company, 11:11 Media.

China's luxury market contracted 10% in 2022 on the year, snapping a five-year streak of high growth, as Beijing's zero-COVID policy and a slowing economy hit spending, Bain & Company said in a report on Tuesday.

​Online retail has endured a couple of difficult years post-pandemic and January’s figures that have just come out show no signs of a change in the trend.

​Me+Em is the latest fashion name to open a store in the prestigious Battersea Power Station mall that opened last autumn.

Womenswear and lifestyle brand Hush has named Melissa Dick as its new Chief Creative Officer. She joins from Tapestry’s Coach brand, where she spent five years and was VP Global Head of Creative Strategy & Studio. 

January sales reports on Tuesday were far from buoyant, although the fashion sector continued to see growth, presumably boosted by easy comparisons, high inflation and clearance sales. 

Max Mara is to stage its next cruise show this summer in Stockholm, the latest location for the brand’s peripatetic journey with its resort collections.

U.S. fashion brand Calvin Klein announced this week a new Pride 2023 collection and campaign starring Australian pop singer Troye Sivan, as well as Nathan McGuire and Manahou Mackay.

Rhuigi Villasenor, founder of Rhude's brand, and also creative director of the Swiss house Bally, presented last Friday, his brand's next fall/winter collection in Los Angeles -- a leathery and streetwear atmosphere. 

Hermes International SCA urged a U.S. jury on Monday to find that a creator of non-fungible tokens violated its trademark for Birkin bags, while lawyers for the "MetaBirkins" maker countered that the images were art.

Upscale outdoor fashion brand Barbour said that despite continuing to enjoy “buoyant” sales it has been forced to raise prices as production costs escalate and the slowdown in consumer spending starts to bite.

​Hilary Alexander, one of the best known fashion editors in the UK and honorary president of the Graduate Fashion Foundation (GFF), died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, her 77th birthday.

The men's collections for next winter seen in Florence, Milan and Paris confirm the return to formality, but revisited and inventive, with an elongated and relaxed silhouette, playing with volumes and textures.

​The Burberry show at London Fashion Week is set to be the hottest ticket in town as the industry gets to see what new creative director Daniel Lee has up his sleeve. But first it's released a taster campaign.

After buying extensive premises, the French group is challenging LVMH with the planned opening of a 2,000 square-metre-plus Gucci flagship in Paris, on the corner of rue de Castiglione and rue Saint-Honoré.