​Fashion and lifestyle retailer FatFace has reported Christmas sales up a hefty 34% as both digital and stores did well in the five weeks to 7 January.

​Matalan on Monday confirmed that its new owners are a group of its senior lenders and gave details of its funding package. But it also revealed a challenging Q3 and December that have dented profit expectations.

Trends and insight service Stylus has announced the death of its founder Marc Worth, who also founded global trends service WGSN with his brother Julian.

Matalan founder John Hargreaves has failed to regain control of the retailer with its lenders winning the prize. But they're also said to be planning talks with unsuccessful bidders about a possible minority investment.

Joe Browns is to invest £2 million in a warehouse upgrade, designed to support both the fashion and lifestyle retailer’s “growth ambitions and increase pick face efficiency”, it said Friday.

In a tough retail landscape, news of redundancies are expected grow following the key Christmas trading and clearance sale periods. Ted Baker has become the most high-profile brand to be looking at potential job cuts.

Parisian design and home decoration trade show Maison&Objet will showcase 2,300 exhibitors at its next session, opening on January 19 at the Paris Nord exhibition centre, with taking care of oneself as its theme.

A Manhattan jury on Thursday said Adidas AG had failed to show luxury brand Thom Browne Inc's use of stripes on its clothing infringed the sportswear giant's signature three-stripe trademark.

​As economic conditions bite, online gifting marketplace Not on the High Street has admitted it’s planning to make cuts to its workforce, citing “challenging market conditions”.

The Florentine trade fair is branching out into new categories such as The Sign, dedicated to furniture accessories, and Pittipets, dedicated to brands for pets, with an ever-increasing emphasis on lifestyle. 

​Beauty and home were among the categories that drove sales higher at The Very Group in the seven weeks to 23 December, and even though fashion as a whole dropped, womenswear rose.

Impressive trading numbers continue to spill out of Pepco Group, the fast-growing pan-European variety discount retailer, with group revenues for the first quarter ended 31 December 27% higher year-on-year.

Redundancies loom for struggling UK discount retailer Wilko. Reports say 95 jobs are under threat after the Nottinghamshire-headquartered firm has decided to outsource its customer service operations.

​M&S turned in what it called a “strong” performance for the Christmas quarter on Thursday with the 13 weeks to 31 December seeing total group sales up 9.9% at £3.6 billion.

Leave it to Pitti to herald a fresh luxury concept, in this case Chateau Orlando; an unusual hybrid brand where fashion meets décor and design, and the brainchild of Luke Edward Hall.

​The Sainsbury’s Q3 trading statement on Wednesday many have been mainly about the supermarket giant’s grocery operations, but it also revealed that clothing sales rose 5.1% in the core festive shopping season.