Denim

​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.

​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.

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

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.

Ruiz, Mango's CEO and vice-chairman of the board of directors, will assume the role held by Isak Andic, who died in a mountaineering accident on December 14, until a new president will be appointed.

​Fashion wholesale group Whispering Smith has reported its results for the year to March and it was clearly a tough period for the Manchester-based business.

​Discounter The Original Factory Shop (TOFS) is reportedly “exploring options” after Deloitte earlier failed to find a buyer for it. Teneo is believed to be acting as adviser to its owner as those options are looked at.

Official UK retail sales figures didn’t deliver much festive cheer for the fashion sector on Friday with news that clothing sales dropped last month.

​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.

It’s fashion retail hub Dover Street Market’s 20th anniversary and Levi’s has chosen to mark the occasion to launch a unique, special-edition pair of jeans.

Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs.