​It’s been a busy few weeks for award winner announcements and on Thursday, H&M Group named the winners of its Global Change Award, its “early-stage innovation challenge seeking bright minds that can transform fashion”.

Sports giant Puma is set to open a store at the South West UK outlet destination Gloucester Quays in the coming weeks.

​Some suppliers of online fashion retail giant ASOS are pulling back from supplying the company with goods following the withdrawal of credit insurance for the firm, according to a newspaper report on Wednesday.

Stocking shelves, slashing prices on low-priced notebooks and sneakers and uniforms, major retailers including Walmart, Foot Locker and Marks & Spencer are bracing for a challenging back-to-school shopping season.  

​Struggling e-tailer N Brown will have been hoping that better results in the fourth quarter could boost its full-year numbers after Q3 had seen revenues falling in the face of the cost-of-living crisis.

The Spanish sneakers brand hit record sales in 2022, with revenue up by 40% to €74.3 million. Revenue in Italy was up 20%, as Munich continued to expand internationally, and opened new monobrand stores in Spain.

​Britain's retail and consumer spending was sluggish in May, two reports showed on Tuesday, with the latest figures from the British retail Consortium and from Barclays offering up bad news for the fashion sector.

​Charaf Tajer’s Casablanca Clothing Ltd business has been acquired by a newly-established company — Casablanca Paris Ltd — in a restructuring process as it sets itself up for further expansion.

The creatives, grandsons of Richard Avedon and Bob Dylan, respectively, found a photography first publication with digital and print issues. 

​With festival season getting under way, it’s interesting to see how brands are making the most of the season’s opportunities. And news has come in that Pull&Bear has renewed and enhanced its link with Primavera Sound.

FGF boss Enzo Fusco achieved a turnover of around 10 million euros on the German market in 2022. He revealed some of his plans for 2024 to FashionNetwork.com on the sidelines of a showroom presentation in Milan.

​We’ve heard a lot about how returns are causing a major problem for retailers in the fashion sector at present, but a new study suggests that better communication about the impact of returns could make a difference.

​As consumers globally get the travel bug again, Giorgio Armani Mare is backing its SS23 offer via a series of pop-ups in “the most important cities and destinations in Europe and Asia”. 

​ASOS is believed to have received a £1 billion takeover approach a few months ago from a Turkish company taking advantage of the potential in its giant market but also its falling share price.

Columbia Sportswear announced on Friday that Mark Nenow, president of its Sorel brand, has resigned in order to focus on his health.  

​Authentic has acquired rain boots specialist Hunter — or to put it more accurately, it has acquired the “intellectual property” of the brand and named two key partners for the UK/Europe and the US.