​The British Fashion Council’s City Wide Celebration (CWC) will feature over a thousand events this month as it marks the 40th anniversary of London Fashion Week.

Primark is to launch a swap shop initiative for customers to exchange pre-owned and vintage clothing in-store, "in celebration of London Fashion Week”.

UK general consumer spending and specific retail sales moved up in August, two reports showed on Tuesday, but there was both good and bad news for fashion.

​We’ve heard a lot about Mountain Warehouse’s growth ambitions in recent periods and its latest move shows it’s targeting not just the UK but the world’s biggest outdoor gear market — the US.

UK retail continued to underperform in August, a new report showed on Friday. The BDO High Street Sales Tracker said total sales (stores and online) in discretionary retail categories increased by just 0.7% this month.

Mountain Warehouse has expanded a key store at the Dalton Park shopping centre on the outskirts of Murton, County Durham.

M&S is having a busy end to the summer. Having just announced it’s to open a standalone fashion store in the UK, the high street retail giant has also launched a dedicated clothing repair service.

​The big retail story at M&S of late has been about it shutting stores that carry clothing and opening food-only spaces. But now, there's a potential change of strategy. It's to test a shop selling fashion and not food.

Record annual revenues and a return to profit aren’t just good news for UK outdoor clothing retailer Mountain Warehouse but “reflect customers flocking back to the high street post-pandemic”.

​Alibaba Group Holding missed market expectations for first-quarter revenue as the company's domestic e-commerce sales came under pressure from cautious spending by Chinese consumers in a faltering economy.

UK retail sales bounced back in July after summer discounts and the Euros football competition unleashed spending at department stores and sports shops.

Women's accessories sold by some of the world's most popular online shopping firms contained toxic substances sometimes hundreds of times above acceptable levels, authorities in Seoul said.

On the business front, we’ve been hearing about brand revamps, key tech link-ups and lawsuits too.

​Product launches are continuing at pace with major developments in multiple categories ranging from the very practical to the totally quirky.

Summer may be here but companies are already focused on the autumn season with key campaign launches and other developments.

Technical innovation is becoming key to the creation process for fashion and we’ve recently heard about two major developments.