Marimekko has named former Gap creative chief Rebekka Bay as its new Creative Director, starting in September.

Celebrity favourite Hunter Boots has clinched a rescue following a sales plunge due to the coronavirus crisis. A further £16.5m is being pumped into the firm to keep it going and growing through the crisis and beyond.

Icon Outlet at The O2 is to reopen on the first day that it can with a comeback planned for June 15 as part of a phased reopening approach for the destination leisure complex.

As the SS20 season is all-but-cancelled globally, lockdown easing is seeing retailers launching products that they know are likely to sell, especially in the menswear market.

The CFDA and Vogue's Covid-19 relief fund announced that $2.13 million will be distributed to 44 businesses in the fund's first round.

Paris's famed Galeries Lafayette department store, which receives some 37 million visitors every year, will reopen this weekend after being shuttered for nearly three months by the coronavirus pandemic, it said Friday.

Prada has seen a double-digit increase in comparable sales in China this month, although there's still some way to go before the company can say its China business is back to full health following the lockdown.

Luxury department store Harrods will open a new Outlet branch in Westfield London for its clearance sale, relieving pressure on its flagship and allowing it to focus on new collections in the Knightsbridge store.

Few fashion designers have had as much impact in the past three decades as Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. With FashionNetwork.com the duo discuss DGfattoincasa; handling the lockdown and their next runway steps

Digital wholesale platform JOOR said on Wednesday that it will power key fashion industry events London Fashion Week next month and Premium Berlin in July, as well as a number of autumn fashion events.

Frasers Group finance chief Chris Wootton has slammed the UK government for its handling of the coronavirus crisis and store reopening plans from a business viewpoint as a two-week opening delay means more lost sales.

The Spanish designer, former creative director of Mulberry, was recently put in charge of women’s fashion leather goods, working alongside Nicolas Ghesquière.

It looks like the £22.6 million takeover of Moss Bros will go ahead after the previously reluctant bidder withdrew its attempt to abandon the deal.

Diane von Furstenberg has closed her London store, which was located on Bruton Street in Mayfair, with the firm’s DVF UK subsidiary going into administration at the same time.

One day after Alessandro Michele, creative director of Gucci, revealed on Instagram that the brand would in future stage only two shows per year, the designer called for a reformulation of the fashion calendar. 

Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man, has acquired a one-quarter stake in Arnaud Lagardère’s holding company, in a move that will be seen as an attempt to support the family of his fellow French billionaire.