Now that’s how a brand can use digital in fashion. After a week of grumbling by pretty much everyone in fashion about the predictability of the online season, along comes Loewe with a major 24-hour web happening. 

We know this was a purely digital menswear season in Paris, but it was nice to see a designer attempt to put on something close to a show – named "The Horsepower Takeaway" from Denmark’s Henrik Vibskov.

The Paris menswear season was all about Asian influences with a quartet of designers from that continent making dramatic stylistic statements Saturday, midway through the first season for men’s fashion entirely online.  

The struggling British fashion and accessories brand, which is axing its Paris and Hong Kong comms teams, is also on the verge of discontinuing its ready-to-wear and footwear licences from Spring/Summer 2021. 

The John Lewis Partnership has revealed which of its department stores are set to close permanently following a review of its branches and said on Thursday that eight locations won’t reopen.

The Covid-19 crisis is reshaping the top of the luxury market with consumers being more selective and spending less, according to a study by Boston Consulting Group and Altagamma released on Tuesday.

Few fashion organizations have had a busier spring than the Fédération de la Couture et de la Mode. FashionNetwork.com met with Pascal Morand and Séverine Merle to discuss Paris' upcoming digital menswear fashion week.

Chaumet took an unusual approach to launching its latest collection, Perspectives, with an instructive online video with four key decision makers in the jewelry brand.

Global affluent consumers are beginning to question their consumption of luxury goods in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, but the Chinese are still very pro-luxury, even though they're demanding sustainability too.

Burberry is evolving its approach to product with the company creating three new business units and hiring a new ready-to-wear business chief, Adrian Ward-Rees, who has also worked at Dior Homme.

LVMH Group brand Dior has just opened a flagship store in the heart of Paris’ luxury shopping district, on the corner of the streets Saint-Honoré and Cambon. The boutique measures 900 square metres and has five levels.

A strong and coherent image, a good international and online presence, and a certain agility have allowed designer labels to establish their success. This has proved a winning formula but it could evolve with Covid-19.

The department store retailer has reportedly informed the landlords of its full-price namesake locations and its off-price Nordstrom Rack stores that it will only pay half of its occupancy costs for the rest of the year.

Schiaparelli kicked off first the ever fully digital Paris haute couture season on Monday with a film which concentrated on its couturier, Daniel Roseberry, since he was marooned in New York throughout the lockdown.

Belstaff has signed another deal designed to get its name and its products in front of more consumers with news that French professional football club OGC Nice has named it an official partner.

New footfall figures for the weekend show the extent of the challenge facing major shopping destinations with Oxford Street in particular under heavy pressure.