Belmond, LVMH’s luxury hotel and resorts group, has named Karl Bieberach to be its head of global development and responsible for the global expansion of Belmond’s portfolio of  hotels, trains, river barges and safaris.

Though February is traditional the season of women’s ready-to-wear in London, this month Burberry staged a purely menswear collection in its Horseferry House headquarters, and entitled it 'Escapes.'

Italian fashion brand Replay has become official denim partner for the newly-launched Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team.

Gap is facing a fight with landlords over its plans to exit physical retail in the UK (and in mainland Europe). These plans should see it closing all of its UK and Ireland stores in July.

Marks & Spencer boss Steve Rowe has urged the government to use a proposed increase in corporation tax to overhaul business rates and rescue the battered UK high street.

​H&M will open its first new-look store in the UK at Basingstoke’s Festival Place in early summer, with the mall saying the giant shop will “offer a very different interior look and feel to other H&M stores.

​With the government unwilling to allow non-essential shops to reopen very quickly, UK consumers are voting with their feet and continuing to drift back to physical shopping, even though most stores are closed.

​Value-focused footwear retailer Shoe Zone on Monday announced the unexpected departure of its finance chief.

​Sustainability is a strand running through almost every product launch these days and that’s very clear from the latest Selfridges debut as the luxe department store unveils a collab with shoe label Christian Louboutin.

​The vaccination programme may be dealing with many millions of people every week and the spread of the virus may be sharply down, but it seems there’s no good news on the reopening of non-essential shops any time soon. 

A report at the weekend suggested that John Lewis is looking at the closure of up to another eight of its remaining 42 departments stores following the closure of eight stores last year.

​ASOS launches a new campaign for the UK, US and Germany from Monday to mark a wider range of Topshop/Topman products available on site following its purchase of the two brands after the Arcadia failure.

The RealReal has named former Neiman Marcus Group CEO, Karen Katz, and Good American CEO and co-founder and Skims founding partner, Emma Grede, to its board of directors. 

Both pop-ups will feature an assortment of seasonal products for women and men from Diesel’s spring/summer 2021 drops, as well as the brand’s pre-fall 2021 collection.

The American retail giant has named the current SVP for its women's group, elevated brands, and e-tailers/DTCs as the new head of its apparel business.