Morning blue skies gave an optimistic start to with three indie brands.

The latest New York collection to pay homage to the city itself is Coach, which presented a subversive vision of luxury and style on a chilly winter Monday afternoon show.

​When a sales report is titled “January a contender for weakest-ever e-commerce month”, you know it will be bad. And the latest IMRG Online Retail Index said 2024 has got off to a “very slow” start for online.

Frasers Group continues to flex its financial muscle in early 2024. The fast-expanding retail group has now upped its stakes in both online fashion/lifestyle business N Brown and digital fashion retailer Boohoo.

Sunday in New York Fashion Week was all about two indie designers, Piotrek Panszczyk of Area and Ludovic de Saint Sernin, a Frenchman declaring his love for the Big Apple, in a link up with Robert Mapplethorpe.

The setting for Khaite’s latest show was as dark as a G. W. Pabst or Carl Meyer film; two jet black halls, where the huge catwalk looked like it was made of black ice. 

As New York Fashion Week kicked off on day one, four calendar regulars proposed their view of Big Apple gals.

A weekend of renaissance by experienced designers - Proenza Schouler, Anna Sui and Keren Craig of Nidra Devi - staying true to their DNA to create convincing urban chic. 

Brooklyn and fashion moment might have historically sounded like an oxymoron, but that’s exactly what we witnessed at a great Willy Chavarria show near the banks of the East River on Friday night.

Tommy Hilfiger returned to New York Fashion Week on Friday night, after a two-year break, and pumped up the volume with a posh preppy collection inside Grand Central Station.

​Hot on the heels of its expansion news in the US this week, Primark on Thursday announced that it will invest more than £100 million in its UK stores this year, which includes more than £75 million of new money.

Luxury Stores at Amazon Europe has unveiled a collaboration with high-end resale platform Hardly Ever Worn It (HEWI), “offering an assortment of pre-owned items from coveted luxury brands”.

The Danish show, after merging with local rival Revolver last year, concluded on Friday February 2 with a fair that brought together around a thousand brands and attracted an increasingly international visitor base.

​Whether it’s for sustainability reasons or more about being thrifty in the cost-of-living crisis, it seems that the appeal of secondhand fashion is really getting through to UK consumers.

​A number of Boohoo Group’s lenders have agreed to extend the terms of £250 million of its borrowing by a year, but others owed £75 million are sticking to the original deadline.

​John Lewis partnership may have previously said that its turnaround will take longer than expected to complete, but it's chairman Sharon White has also just said that the company will return to profit this year.