Fashion

SYKY has launched a short-form online publication led by Nicola Formichetti. It's “an extension of the mission to bring the future of a fully digital, physical, and augmented reality of fashion to life”.  

Just a day or so into the year and Hugo Boss has announced a key appointment. It has named Briton James Foster as its new senior Vice president global marketing.

Amazon.com has fallen short in its bid to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the e-commerce giant of hurting competition in the online superstore market, causing rival Zulily to lose sales and consumers to pay higher prices.

Hong Kong's November retail sales fell 7.3% by value from a year earlier, reflecting a change in consumption patterns and the relatively strong Hong Kong dollar, government data showed on Thursday.

World shares struggled for traction on Thursday after a jittery close to 2024, while the dollar weakened as investor sentiment dithered ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House.

A record number of activist shareholders mounted campaigns at global companies in 2024, a Barclays report showed on Thursday, as their pressure tactics produced strong returns, and further growth is likely this year.

​US-based licensing giant Marquee Brands has acquired heritage lifestyle and fashion brand Laura Ashley from Gordon Brothers for an undisclosed sum. 

​UK retail is bracing for a tough 2025 as 2024 closed with the news around 13,500 stores closed last year, a rise of 28% on 2023, according to Centre for Retail Research (CRR).

​After a strong performance throughout 2024, UK shopping centres ended the year with a flourish topping the footfall list of places to shop in December.

​Aspinal of London’s latest year looks to have been a good one on the sales front with the company’s accounts for the year to the end of March showing a 9% revenues jump.

​Hush Homewear’s results for the year to the end of March showed the women’s lifestyle company going through another tough year with it saying its performance was “below expectations”.

China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Wednesday it had agreed to sell its majority stake in hypermarket chain Sun Art Retail Group to Chinese private equity firm DCP Capital for HK$12.298 billion ($1.58 billion). 

Greece on Monday announced a campaign to protect teens from "website addiction" after a similar move by Australia targeting social media companies last month.

Job losses in UK retail topped almost 170,000 this year after the collapse of major high street chains, according to data from the Altus Group/Centre for Retail Research.

​A brand for older women no more. The icing on M&S’s turnaround cake is that younger women are again perceiving the high street retailer as the place to shop for fashion.

​M&S has released the latest collection for its successful Goodmove activewear label with a new campaign starring ambassador Alex Scott.