​Klarna has unveiled Paris Hilton as its new global face with an upcoming campaign featuring the “Y2K icon” that’s been created in collaboration with Hilton’s next-gen media company, 11:11 Media.

​Global digital fashion giant ASOS has expanded its ‘Partner Fulfils’ programme with new tech that allows orders to be placed on its website and app without products being stored in the retailer’s distribution hubs.

​Retailer Little Mistress has launched its latest collection in a series of popular collaborations with Vogue Williams, the Irish model and TV star. The collection features a spring palette, and plenty of prints.

Global wedding/occasionwear specialist David's Bridal is doing its bit for sustainability with plans to extend the life of loved fashion items. It has announced the expansion of its alterations services in the UK.

The finalists of the fashion and accessories categories of the famous emerging designer competition are meeting up in Paris to visit the Première Vision show, Chanel’s 19M craftsmanship hub and the Hermès headquarters.

​Ever-acquisitive Frasers Group is back in the news. This time its focus is on buying shopping centres rather than its appetite for individual retail brands, reportedly lining up to buy two urban centres for £100m.

​Online retail has endured a couple of difficult years post-pandemic and January’s figures that have just come out show no signs of a change in the trend.

​Me+Em is the latest fashion name to open a store in the prestigious Battersea Power Station mall that opened last autumn.

Two years after setting up a dedicated division, the Italian fashion group has debuted at the eyewear show with collections by four of its top labels: Marcelo Burlon County of Milan, Off-White, Palm Angels and Ambush.

Womenswear and lifestyle brand Hush has named Melissa Dick as its new Chief Creative Officer. She joins from Tapestry’s Coach brand, where she spent five years and was VP Global Head of Creative Strategy & Studio. 

January sales reports on Tuesday were far from buoyant, although the fashion sector continued to see growth, presumably boosted by easy comparisons, high inflation and clearance sales. 

U.S. fashion brand Calvin Klein announced this week a new Pride 2023 collection and campaign starring Australian pop singer Troye Sivan, as well as Nathan McGuire and Manahou Mackay.

​All 170 M&Co stores are to close following the brand’s sale to AK Retail. The sale was announced last week and didn’t include the store estate so news that the shops would close wasn’t unexpected.

​Hilary Alexander, one of the best known fashion editors in the UK and honorary president of the Graduate Fashion Foundation (GFF), died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, her 77th birthday.

Texworld Evolution is moving all its July sessions to the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre, where they will be staged alongside international lingerie show SIL and sourcing show Interfilière.

There was a time when warehousing in the UK was in short supply as the e-commerce boom shifted up several gears. No longer, it seems.