Bridal wear

​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.

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

​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.

Yves Hanania of Lighthouse, a luxury industry expert specialised in growth strategy, has analysed the latest sector trends for FashionNetwork.com, and the new challenges and paradigms in a crisis-ridden market.

​The UK fashion sector has to a certain extent begun bouncing ack after a challenging 2023 and this should continue in 2025, according to new figures from data specialist CACI.

​Zalando has looked back at 2024 based on the data generated by its platform and come up with Trend Rewind, a look at what’s been trending this year.

​Debenhams has named insider Patrick Duggan as its new creative director. It's clearly an endorsement of the work he's done already as he's been the senior head of creative at the online marketplace for almost two years.

Australian Fashion Week will go ahead next year in Sydney, thanks to the Australian Fashion Council which on Sunday said it has secured funding from the NSW Government to deliver the nation's principal fashion event. 

Isak Andic, the founder of Spanish clothing retailer Mango, one of Europe's largest fashion groups, with nearly 2,800 stores worldwide, died Saturday in an accident, the company said.

John Lewis’s latest trend report shows that soggy weather, retro 80s trends, preppy and Brat Girl fashion, and travel returning to pre-covid levels “were among the biggest influences on our shopping habits” this year.

Lucien Pagès Communication, Paris’ most happening PR company, has sold his firm to The Independents, in the latest deal by the burgeoning comms and production group

Liverpool One already has had a successful 2024, but that’s not enough for operator Grosvenor as the shopping/entertainment hub continues to be a retail magnet.

Success stories across the shopping centre sector continue. Peel Retail & Leisure is the latest, announcing 11 renewals as part of 20 leasing deals at its Gloucester Quays this year and a significant rise on footfall.

Zalando said Wednesday it's aiming “to become your most relevant fashion e-commerce company” and one way to do that is by taking over Otto Group's e-tail peer About You. The massive news sent About You shares soaring

Despite its conjuring of a cozy, soft brown, not everyone embraced the hue.

Saturday’s reopening of Notre Dame was a meeting of religion and ritual, heads of states and cardinals of the church, modest artisans, proud firemen and billionaires, architectural beauty, and a dosage of fashion.