Online fashion platform Goat named Lizzie Francis as its first chief operating officer on Monday. She will report to CEO and co-founder, Eddy Lu.

The lifestyle subscription service has teamed up with the online platform to launch the FabFitFun Pinterest 100 Box, featuring trending fashion, beauty and wellness products, as well as food, travel and home items. 

At the first show on the official calendar of Paris Fashion Week Men's, designers Emma Hedlund and Saif Bakir took their contemporary streetwear to Paris' École Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique.

Virgil Abloh, the mastermind behind streetwear label Off-White and men's artistic director of Louis Vuitton, is launching a new Beats 1 radio show on Apple Music that he will record from Louis Vuitton's Paris atelier.

Jay-Z has been unveiled as Puma's latest celebrity recruit.The multitalented rapper, producer and entrepreneur has joined the sportswear giant with a high profile role in the basketball division.

Multi-million dollar scarf brand Charlotte Simone will debut its new limited collection of knitwear at Pure London this July, joining a host of brands in the UK’s leading fashion buying event.

Westfield London is hoping its £600m expansion will attract a record number of visitors this summer as it continues its latest phase of openings. Visitors from China and the Middle East are expected to boost sales. 

The Italian group closed 2017 with a €180 million loss. The effects of Luciano Benetton's leadership are expected for 2019, while holding company Edizione is investing again in the group.

​The John Lewis department store chain had a good seven days in the period to June 16 as its 5.7% growth came on the back of rising fashion sales and a particularly good time for own-brands and menswear.

Young fashion brand Lipsy increased revenues by 23% in the year to 27 January, before it decided to close its own website to focus on its online sales through Next.

For 2018, Italian fashion group Aeffe envisages a 10-12% revenue rise and a more than proportional increase in operating margin, as it did in 2017, according to GM Marcello Tassinari.

The fashion retailer is reopening its largest store in France, in rue La Fayette, Paris, deploying for the first time on a permanent basis the ‘Take Care’ garment maintenance service.

Fashion loves nothing more than a debut; and Paris is looking forward two enormous ones at Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior during what will surely be an action-packed week of menswear.

Leicester-based fashion wholesaler Rocco Fashion has been rescued from administration by RB Fashion Limited in a deal that has saved 10 jobs.

Ted Baker is strengthening its board of directors with the arrival of a new independent non-executive director this week.