Fashion

​It may not be headline news, but Zalando has commissioned new research to highlight the impact it makes on Europe’s economy and the numbers it has come up with are impressive.

Fashion people are obsessed with designer moves. Earlier this month, Chanel named Matthieu Blazy as its new top designer in a round of musical chairs that has also seen Hedi Slimane leave Celine and Kim Jones exit Fendi.

​Accounts for the companies that own and operate the David Beckham brands and businesses showed another successful year in 2023.

​We’ve had several updates from Quiz in recent weeks so nobody’s under any illusion about its performance. But it has now released half-year results plus a December update, underlining the problems it’s been facing.

​Entering the bridal category is something of a rite of passage for brands on reaching a certain level of awareness and the latest label to do so is Nobody’s Child, which has just launched its first bridal collection.

Perfect Corp has acquired Farfetch’s Wannaby operation — known as Wanna to its consumer users — as it continues to expand its fashion and beauty tech offering.

​Footfall figures have already suggested the hoped-for pre-Christmas rush happened but wasn’t as frantic as hoped and now more data tell us the appetite for post-Christmas sales isn’t as great as expected either.

President-elect Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban popular social media app TikTok or force its sale.

Louis Vuitton’s collaboration with Takashi Murakami made a major impact 20 years ago and the star LVMH brand is celebrating that with a relaunch fronted by someone who was only eight when the collection first appeared.

​Retailers continue to struggle and the number in critical financial distress was up 25% in the latest quarter compared to the three months before it, according to insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor.

Price-conscious holiday shoppers opened their wallets for last-minute online discounts on clothing and stocking stuffers, potentially benefiting retailers that also offered free delivery and curbside pickup.

China revised upwards its 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.7% to 129.4 trillion yuan ($17.73 trillion), a top statistics official said on Thursday, while releasing the fifth national economic census.

South Korean retailer Shinsegae Group plans to set up a joint venture with Alibaba International, Shinsegae affiliate E-Mart said on Thursday.

In the most competitive holiday season in years, major U.S. retailers Target and Walmart are spending more on ads to reach shoppers on short-video app TikTok and streaming platforms.

Gearing up to relaunch fast fashion brand Shein in India, Reliance Retail has begun to test launch the label on the backend of its multi-brand fashion platform Ajio.

​Age and size never seem to be a barrier when it comes to brand collaboration. Two names you may never put together are high-performance outerwear niche brand ThruDark and truly global sports heritage cap brand New Era.