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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.

Lululemon has named PGA golfer Max Homa as its newest ambassador.

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

​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.

​Ashworth and Parker —better known as UK luxury retailer END. — continued to face tough market conditions in the year to the end of March, its latest accounts filing has shown.

Barbour's accounts for the year to the end of April show falling revenues after it had enjoyed a strong increase in the prior year. But profits rose, a turnaround from the last year when revenue jumped but profits fell.

​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”.

​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.

​Barclays has released UK data looking back at 2024 and perhaps the key point is that while clothing stores’ transaction volumes grew 3%, spend growth was nowhere to be seen with spend down 0.2%.

​Wourth Group — the company that used to be known as Woolovers — has filed its results for the year to the end of March with the figures showing that revenue increased substantially as it made acquisitions.

​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.

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.

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.