Menswear’s two most defiantly artistic designers – Craig Green and Jonathan Anderson – began Saturday with two strikingly unique visions in Paris, before Hermès presented a salutary lesson in nonchalant chic.

Paris menswear witnessed two contrasting visions on Sunday: Thom Browne posh demi-cross dressing in wool bouclé, and Hedi Slimane’s retro rocker statement amid thousands of millennial teeny boppers.

Ralph Lauren Corporation named on Friday Deb Cupp, president of Microsoft North America, as a director for election at the company’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. 

The brand owned by the Kering group is putting its youth line on hold, which may well be discontinued for good, due to changes in the market. 

Rains designed a lineup suitable for next summer's warm weather featuring optimistic colors and cuts, while Cool T.M. stood out for its ironic street couture. 

​Luxury outerwear brand Barbour has linked up with the National Trust to work on “the clean-up and restoration work at Wallington, Cragside and Hadrian’s Wall in the North East of England, following Storm Arwen.

London-based Threadology has secured a seven-figure loan from HSBC UK, as the formalwear supplier and retailer scales up operations as demand grows with weddings and formal events returning after restrictions ended.

Paris Fashion Week Men's opened on Tuesday with interesting collections by Egonlab, Taakk and Etudes, giving a foretaste of what looks like an extremely promising programme.

On Wednesday, the three labels closed the second day of Paris Fashion Week Men's with panache, each broadcasting their message loudly and clearly.

The co-founder of The Other Store, an e-commerce specialist for fashion brands, and most recently of training company Everywhere Anytime, was elected chairman on Thursday for a three-year term.

Paris will always be a city of contrasting ideas. Like this Thursday, where luxury brand Louis Vuitton blended French romanticism with hip hop, as Californian-born Rick Owens sought inspiration from Ancient Egypt.

On the second day of Men’s Fashion Week, brands played with proportions and volume. Clothes were made light as a feather in Lemaire's collection, while Hed Mayner continued to explore large volumes.

​It’s “revolutionary" and “groundbreaking” and becomes the retailer’s biggest investment yet. That’s the latest Flannels store that has just opened in Liverpool.

UK department store group Fenwick has moved into the luxury rental space, launching an exclusive service with clothing hire specialist Front Row London. The collab launched at its London, Bond Street, flagship Wednesday.

​The wisdom of building major shopping destinations adjacent to giant entertainment complexes has been made very clear with the return of large-scale events at Wembley Stadium boosting London Designer Outlet (LDO).

​Loro Piana has announced the winners of the sixth edition of its international Knit Design Award competition. The winners were students Po-Chieh Chiu and Shanon Poupard from the Institut Français de la Mode, Paris.