Paris Fashion Week’s main action on Thursday began and ended with two historic marques, Chloé and Schiaparelli, strutting their stuff with brio, the first with a debut, the second with fresh impetus.

If you like a brand that respects its DNA even as it playfully reinvents it, then one has to admire Karl Lagerfeld, which presented swish new array of clothes on Tuesday.

Luxury lingerie and nightwear brand Bluebella is diving into swimwear as a permanent category ahead of the important summer season.

Paris Fashion Week Women will kick off on Monday with maiden appearances by CFCL and Zomer, come-backs by Vetements, Lacoste, Off-White and Lutz Huelle, and new creative directors at Chloé, Rochas and Alexander McQueen.

Fausto Puglisi took the house of Roberto Cavalli somewhere rather new this season with a gutsy collection on Wednesday night inspired by marble and exotic stones. Call it Marbleized Mode.

Burberry climaxed London Fashion Week Monday night with a powerful collection, a town and country meeting staged in a giant plaid green tent in East London.

​The previously flagged Wolf & Badger flagship store has now opened on Berwick Street in London’s Soho, covering 1,400 sq ft.

In a mega busy weekend, FashionNetwork.com caught up with a dozen collections. Here are six that really stood out: Roksanda, Aaron Esh, Simone Rocha, Johanna Parv, Sinead Gorey and Holzweiler.

Glorifying nostalgia was the theme at the latest JW Anderson, staged very suitably in a converted mock Victorian swimming pool dating back to the 1930s. 

Smashing the fashion world's rigid conventions, UK modelling agency Zebedee has been filling catwalks with a diverse array of models for seven years.

A dank wet Saturday at London Fashion Week, where ironically in a ready-to-wear season the most distinctive collections were essentially expressions of couture. 

West African luxury womenswear and lingerie brand Torlowei has opened a pop-up at Harrods department store in Knightsbridge to introduce the brand’s ‘Torlowei is Art’ SS24 collection.

US women’s shapewear brand Spanx has launched its first-ever London-centric ad campaign, featuring within the tube network, including prominent locations such as Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road stations.

​In news that might not be too much of a surprise, it’s being reported that Farfetch founder-CEO José Neves is among more than one member of the senior team stepping down in the wake of the firm’s takeover by Coupang.

​Ongoing demand for “high-quality space across Mayfair and Belgravia throughout 2023” reduced vacancy rates to 4.3% by the end of the year in the Grosvenor-controlled London retail, residential and office portfolio.  

North American intimates brand Evelyn & Bobbie has appointed lingerie, swim and loungewear multi-channel sales agency APM to support the brand’s UK/Ireland launch.