Woolrich has announced two new hires, both joining from VF. The completely new roles see the company adopting a digital-first mindset and also targeting key developing markets in Europe and Asia.

The German luxury fashion brand and the international perfume company have signed a ten-year global licensing deal for the creation, development and distribution of fragrances under the MCM brand.

The menswear designer has, with only five collections, taken Dior Men to a new level of artistic collaboration. Kim Jones outlined his vision for menswear at a talk at Vogue Fashion Festival.

Dior Skincare is preparing to welcome a major name from the beauty world, esthetician Joanna Czech, into its ranks.

La Samaritaine, the greatest construction project of the world’s largest luxury construction company – encompassing a chic department store, hotel, office space and even public housing –  is finally, almost, ready.

The Walpole Awards on Monday evening highlighted the importance of the luxury sector to the UK economy and hailed some of its key names for the impact they've made at home and abroad.

We’re constantly being told that UK shoppers are spending less, but it seems that they're actually going to spend more overall this Christmas, although the increase won't be large.

The fragile retail sector in the UK, and especially in central London, is continuing to get support from spending by international shoppers and American and Russian consumers are prominent among those, Global Blue said.

Italian authorities arrested the boss of a company in the southern city of Naples that employed dozens of undocumented workers allegedly making leathergoods for some of Europe's best-known luxury groups.

Some 42 million shoppers from the UK and abroad are expected to visit London’s West End, including Bond, Oxford and Regent Street, over the eight-week Christmas trading period.

The first anniversary of the ‘yellow vest’ protests saw violent clashes in Paris last weekend, at the Galeries Lafayette flagship store and at two shopping malls.

Retail billionaire Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct, has demanded new rent deals are tied to sales across his store empire that now includes HoF and Jack Wills as well as Sports Direct and Flannels. 

The Canadian outdoor lifestyle brand has chosen New York’s SoHo neighborhood as the location for its first U.S. flagship, an immersive retail space spread over 3,500 square feet.

A matter of days after the confirmation of a collaboration between Prada and Adidas, the worlds of luxury and sneakers may be coming together once again, via a Jordan 1 signed by Dior, rumored to be released next June. 

Leave it to Miuccia Prada to dream up a novel new strategy for her new Resort 2020 campaign – which debarked not on the pages of any magazine or on laptops, but on paper broadsheets wrapped around bouquets of flowers.