The family fashion retailer has promoted Ouarda Ech-Chykry, who has risen through the ranks at Kiabi, to the head of its French subsidiary, following the departure of Florian Dinel, who had held the post since 2019.

Janie Samet, France’s most famous fashion critic and the long-time reviewer of Paris daily Le Figaro, has died. She passed away in Cannes on Sunday, aged 91.

Galeries Lafayette, Zara and Primark are among the fashion retailers in France whose employees have staged demonstrations in recent weeks, prompted by wage demands.

The Atelier de Création et Production, founded in 1987 in Paris by Jean Touitou, is looking for buyers according to the weekly Challenges. The mandate has been given to the investment bank Rothschild & Co.

​A spread-betting company has become the latest investor to see value in buying a big chunk of shares in fashion retail group N Brown. 

The Fashion Awards red carpet may have been largely about ultra-luxury designers on Monday evening, but high street chain H&M also made an impact with a big focus on sustainability

​The headlines about Footasylum recently may have largely been about its failed purchase by JD Sports. But under the new ownership of Aurelius, it has opened its first store since 2021 and has been performing strongly.

​UK consumer spending rose last month, but it didn’t manage to keep up with inflation so represented a drop in real terms, two key monthly surveys showed on Tuesday.

Chinese fast-fashion company Shein announced it has appointed Jessica Liu to the role of vice president, global brand operations, effective immediately. 

The Inditex-owned homeware and decor brand, Zara Home, has launched a detergent that reduces microfibre release by up to 80%. The formula was developed together with BASF. 

VF Corp announced on Monday that chairman, president and chief executive officer Steve Rendle will retire and named its lead independent director Benno Dorer as interim chief executive, effective immediately.

Valentino’s creative director scooped the top prize at the Fashion Awards in London on Monday evening. Pierpaolo Piccioli was named designer of the year at the British Fashion Council-organised event.

The Dutch label has picked new CEO Matteo Franceschini from within Italian fashion group OTB, owner of Viktor & Rolf. He succeeds Andrea Collesei, who will instead concentrate on Jil Sander, another label owned by OTB.

Barely off the plane from Miami, Fausto Puglisi has unveiled pre-fall Roberto Cavalli, and it’s also a meeting of USA and Italy; Southwest and Sicily; Millicent Rogers and la moda.

The UK outerwear brand is going through a rejuvenation phase, as shown by the collection launched with Chloé on MatchesFashion on December 2. A directional collaboration strategy is unlocking new prospects for Barbour.

The company founded by Thomas Meyer has renovated its store in Singapore's Vivo City shopping center and opened a new store in Ion Orchard. In 2023, the Spanish company will reopen its Raffles City boutique.