The Italian luxury giant chose the vibrant artsy downtown Manhattan neighborhood for its latest retail space.

When it comes to long-standing accolades, The Royal College of Art (RCA) can have few rivals. The London institution has been ranked No 1 university for art & design internationally for the ninth consecutive year.

H&M has upsized and relocated in Milton Keynes to centre:mk, the town’s increasingly successful mall. And the new store will be special, according to the fashion retailer.

Not so many years ago, John Lewis was unstoppable while M&S was in an endless turnaround phase. Today, the situation has reversed and John Lewis is even reportedly thinking of changing its prized ownership structure.

Ryo Matsumura, head of Rakuten Fashion, tells FashionNetwork.com about the Japanese e-commerce giant's projects. Sponsor of Tokyo Fashion Week, the platform intends to support and promote Japanese design.

​When a results release starts with a message to the staff talking about “another very tough year”, you know it’s not going to be good and so it was with John Lewis Partnership on Thursday.

​It’s a big news week for John Lewis with its results due Thursday and a new concept store layout unveiled Tuesday. And Wednesday? Just the small matter of a new CEO.

​Inditex’s full-year results on Wednesday saw the Spanish retail giant once again showing why it’s such a dominant force in fashion as sales and profits both soared.

Move over homewares. It’s not just fashion, beauty, tech and personal styling and design that have now been added to the former John Lewis At Home store in Horsham, Sussex. It’s become a concept store to test new ideas.

John Lewis’s build-to-rent property project is facing resistance and delays. The plan to build 430 flats in towers up to 19 storeys high in Ealing, west London, is months behind schedule, according to local residents.

Eurofund Group, co-operator of the key Silverburn mall in Glasgow, has exchanged contracts on a store with home and beauty brand Rituals Cosmetics, “further diversifying and improving the retailer mix at the centre”. 

M&S has signed a major addition to its board. Cheryl Potter, former head of the global consumer team at Permira, is joining the retailer with chairman Archie Norman calling her a “superstar of the private equity world”.

Mark Newton-Jones, the former head of Mothercare, has joined Gordon Brothers as its senior MD, Head of the UK and EMEA, serving as the top executive for the region.

Luxury giant Hermès on Friday reported a 22.9% jump in Q4 sales as the US boomed and sales in China held up, despite Covid challenges.

Joe Browns enjoyed a “robust Christmas”, with the fashion and homewares retailer recording double-digit sales growth over the four weeks to 22 December, it said on Wednesday. 

In January, the French e-tail group put Emmanuelle Cartier in charge of its international business. She was previously Sephora’s managing director for products and marketing in Europe and the Middle East.