Footwear

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.

​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.

​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%.

​Sports giant Puma has just launched a new video in celebration of the Future 8 Launch Edition football boot, the eighth generation in its Future series.

​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.

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.

A colossal £2 billion is expected to be spent on pre-owned gifting this Christmas and is an indication of just how consumers have embraced this growing and now mainstream secondhand market.

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.

On January 7, Jimmy Choo will open in Scandicci, near Florence, its new global supply chain office, in a three-storey, 3,000 square-metre building home to the offices and warehouse, plus a 2,600 square-metre basement.