Amazon has launched Alexa Skill Blueprints, giving users the opportunity to create personalized Alexa skills suited to their homes and families. Categories of skills include at home, fun and games, and learning.

Inclusive designer Christian Siriano has opened a concept shop in NY where he will hand select pieces for customers, offering a unique clothing and accessories experience in a space designed to be Instagram-worthy.

Reformation has announced plans to divert 75,000 articles of clothing from landfills in 2018, tripling its goal from last year. It will launch initiatives that support the goal, including resale and vintage shopping.

After close to ten years of trademark disputes, the companies have announced that they have come to an agreement which will put an end to all the court cases currently involving the two parties.

​The prospects are looking grim for House of Fraser with news that the struggling retailer has called in advisors to look at its restructuring options, which means store closures could be on the horizon.

The research centre, launched in partnership with the Royal College of Art, will aim to invent new sustainable materials, transform customer experience and find new manufacturing solutions.

Online retailers need to step up and take more responsibility for establishing the provenance of products they sell to ensure real fur labelled as faux isn’t slipping through, a UK committee of MPs has said.

Eight British and UK-based fashion designers have been announced among the 30 semi-finalists for the sustainability-focused Redress Design Award 2018.

The Fashion Business School at London College of Fashion is opening a unique exhibition with student and graduate work at London City Island, a riverside development in Canary Wharf, next week.

Hermès has overtaken Kering in terms of market capitalization on the Paris Bourse, even though its annual sales are less than one third of those of the giant luxury conglomerate. 

Shares in online fashion retailer Koovs went back into decline on Thursday after rising sharply this week for no apparent reason.

Matt Smith is leaving the department store chain to take up the position of finance director at Selfridges. The announcement follows disappointing interim results on Thursday.

It's all change at Mothercare with the under-pressure mother and baby products retailer having now changed its chairman just two weeks after its CEO was replaced, moving it from a non-executive to an executive role.

British retail sales recorded their biggest quarterly fall in a year during the three months to March, after unusually cold and snowy weather kept shoppers at home.

Sales dropped and profits headed downwards fast in the first half for Debenhams, but its international ops were stronger and its revamp strategy is showing early good results, although there's still a lot of work to do.