The indie fashion brand is alive and well in New York. While mid-sized designers in Europe have had troubled few seasons, here in New York on a wet Saturday they all seem pretty vibrant.

Two powerful shows from Willy Chavarria and Alaïa by Pieter Mulier climaxed the first full day of action in New York Fashion Week, the first a significant political statement, the second an aesthetic proclamation.

The French textile group reports first-half sales of €374 million, up 11% on the first half of 2023. EBITDA rose by 20.8%.

​M&S may have been relatively late in exploiting the potential of e-shopping, but its e-tail ops are now firing on all cylinders and the retailer is firing them up further by adding artificial intelligence into the mix.

No vacation spot in America has as much emotion as the Hamptons, whose biggest fan Ralph Lauren celebrated the richly redolent resort in a greatest hits collection on Thursday night staged in a classy horse farm.

​Primark owner Associated British Foods delivered a trading update for its full business on Thursday and said revenue at its retail division is expected to be up around 4% in H2. The second half ends on 14 September.

​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”.

​Woolmark is this week launching “a major future-facing programme for the wool industry” with Woolmark+ being “a bold new roadmap aimed at driving the industry towards nature positive”.

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.

N°21 has recently inked a distribution agreement with South Korean conglomerate Kolon Industries FnC and inaugurated a shop-in-shop at Hyundai department store in Seoul.

A nearly 100-year-old Indian conglomerate Raymond Ltd. is looking to list its apparel and real estate units by the end of 2025 as the founders look to boost shareholder value.

While the local textile industry was worried about the strike announced by more than 20,000 dockworkers in Indian ports, against a backdrop of rising transport costs, the social partners finally reached an agreement.

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.

US textile and apparel trade declined by 3.17% to $11.5 billion in the first half of the year, following a significant drop recorded in fiscal year 2023.

The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) revealed in its latest report a hopeful outlook for a forthcoming rebound in demand after an unusually prolonged slowdown in the industry.