Returns season is upon us, and it’s going to be a particularly busy period, especially for the fashion and beauty sectors, a survey says. Gifts worth £232 million will be returned in the UK, a poll of 2,000 people shows,

The luxury brand of the eponymous designer has reached an agreement with its partner Samsung C&T Corporation to take over direct operation of its business in South Korea through the creation of a new company.

The German label has enlisted top model Gigi Hadid and Colombian pop singer Maluma for the ad campaign for the Spring/Summer 2023 collection, which will be unveiled at a ‘see now, buy now’ show in Miami on March 15.

British eyewear specialist Inspecs’ full-year trading update on Thursday highlighted a challenging year that saw 2022 group revenue dipping to $246 million (it reports in US dollars) from $246.5 million in 2021.

​Following an increasingly tough 2022 for UK retail, footfall this year won’t return to pre-pandemic levels and the gap from 2019 and will settle at between -5% and -10%, according to retail experts Springboard.

Sustainability hats off to two retail destinations. Quayside MediaCity in Salford and Gloucester Quays have become the first shopping centres to achieve ‘Net Zero Carbon – Operational Energy’.

​Brand owner and licensing house Brand Machine Group (BMG) has been very busy of late and just a month after announcing a new technology chief and welcoming a new CFO, it has unveiled another key role.

Los Angeles-based designer Clare Vivier will open her fourteenth Clare V.'s boutique in Washington D.C. at the end of spring. FashionNetwork.com sat down with her to talk about strategies and projects with her brand. 

Sales at Tod's came just over 1 billion euros at current exchange rates last year, up 10% compared to pre-pandemic level, pushed by the strong growth of its main homonymous brand despite Covid curbs in China.

Luxury resale platform The RealReal announced on Wednesday the appointment of John E. Koryl as its chief executive officer and as a member of its board of directors, effective February 6, 2023. 

Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli went back to the 80s for inspiration this season in couture, blending the euphoria of that decade with today’s greater sense of inclusivity.

Lots of Haider and not a huge quantity of Jean Paul at Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture By Haider Ackermann, the fourth edition of the project of inviting other designers to create one-off Gaultier couture collections. 

Two influential couture houses concentrated on ball room clothes this season. Though where Elie Saab focused on a royal wedding soirée in Thailand, Viktor & Rolf sent their cast to a contemporary surrealist ball.

The Italian luxury group reached 1.49 billion euros in 2022 with an increase of 15.5%, but it sees its progress slowing down in particular in the fourth quarter (-0.5%) penalized by the anti-Covid policy in China.

It’s billed as “groundbreaking” in the world of digitalisation. Germany’s ColorDigital is launching DMIx StudioAvatars and DMIx 3D-Studio “for a full end-to-end digital product development workflow”.

On Tuesday January 24, French couturier Stéphane Rolland presented his Spring/Summer 2023 haute couture collection at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, featuring lavish dresses decorated with gold and Brazilian symbols.