The series will be presented at Kingpins’ Amsterdam show on January 20 and 21, featuring webinars focused on ZDHC’s chemical management and wastewater tools and guidelines.

The gradual retreat of retailers from physical spaces is continuing with the latest slate of store closures coming from Jack Wills, which is now owned by Frasers Group. One central London store is on the closure list.

Simply Be and Ambrose Wilson were good news for owner N Brown Group in the 18 weeks to January 4, despite the firm’s overall revenues dropping by 5% in the period. 

Los Angeles-based denim and lifestyle brand Guess is welcoming back pop-icon Jennifer Lopez as the face of Guess and Marciano worldwide, for Spring 2020.

Ongoing underperformance at its Australian operations has led to the exit from his group post of Woolworths Holdings’ CEO Ian Moir, the South African company replacing him with an executive from Levi Strauss.

Retailer Anthropologie is continuing the rollout of its smaller, ‘local store’ concept with a third location under the local umbrella having opened. The new store is the second local shop to open in the UK.

Circumstances conspired against Fast Retailing in Q1 with the firm having faced several obstacles in the Asia market. And its Uniqlo chain was also at the mercy of the weather last month as high temperatures hit sales.

Italian-Chinese label Pronounce presented 18 looks from its capsule collection in collaboration with Diesel at the January 4 show for the London Fashion Week Men’s.

The denim labels' parent company, Kontoor Brands, has announced that it has reached its zero-waste targets at its owned distribution centers across North America.

A few days after Massimo Piombini’s departure from Balmain was made official, his new professional challenge has been revealed: he will become the CEO of the OTB group’s leading label, Diesel, in February 2020.

Superdry delivered plenty of negative numbers with its half-year results on Thursday but they'd largely been expected as the company is deep in a reset strategy and it said this is showing early signs of working.

Having previously served as vice president of design for True Religion from 2006 to 2017, Wells will now be responsible for product design, marketing and driving the creative direction of the brand as creative director. 

The targets, approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, include goals to power all PVH offices, warehouses and stores with 100% renewable electricity by 2030.

Fast Retailing’s Uniqlo chain is continuing its global rollout and on Friday it opened its first ever store in the burgeoning Vietnamese market.

Denim Première Vision seemed to shrug off the real and the economic chill as it returned to London this week with a busy show, an enlarged exhibitor list and a sustainability focus both for production and style trends.

Guess has announced plans to make its denim more sustainable, after joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's ‘Make Fashion Circular' initiative.