Sandra Halliday

​The British Fashion Council is to open The London Fashion Week Shop on Regent Street from 22-24 February “to provide commercial support for designers” as part of its wider set of events linked to the fashion week.

​Lindex Group may have been in expansion mode lately, having opened a large new Lindex store in Bluewater just before Christmas, but its latest results showed lower annual sales, although a profits improvement in Q4.

Footwear's been lagging several steps behind the wider fashion sector in the sustainability stakes. So the situation’s being addressed by Fashion for Good with a ‘Closing the Footwear Loop’ initiative.

M&S delivered a shock leadership team update on Thursday with news that John Lyttle, formerly CEO of Boohoo Group, will be joining on 3 March as MD of Clothing, Home & Beauty in a planned succession.

​Luxury online fashion marketplace Cult Mia has announced strong sales in 2024 with plans for fast growth this year following last autumn’s seed funding round.

​Scotch & Soda is continuing its bounce-back under global brand management company Bluestar Alliance via a new collab — dubbed "Born to Love" — with contemporary pop artist Burton Morris.

​Hackett Limited has filed its accounts for the year ending last March with the upmarket menswear business saying that turnover increased by over 13% to almost £130 million. Profits rose as well.

​It was a “disappointing” January for discretionary UK retail according to advisory firm BDO's latest High Street Sales Tracker (HSST).

​British eyewear specialist InSpecs has updated on trading for 2024 ahead of its annual results due in April and said that both sales and EBITDA fell. But the update overall was mixed with some bad news and some good.

​In a festive season characterised in many people’s minds as a poor one for UK fashion, Weird Fish is the latest name to report exactly the opposite.