Alber Elbaz debuted his brand new AZ Factory Tuesday evening in this week’s Paris haute couture season, marking a dynamic change in direction by one of fashion’s most influential designers.

The opening day of Paris haute couture week ended with three experienced designers -- Giambattista Valli, Julie de Libran and Olivier Theyskens at Azzaro -- showing collections that captured the couture's energy.

Indian authorities have permanently banned 59 Chinese apps, including fashion shopping apps Shein and Club Factory, as well as Tik Tok, due to perceived security concerns.

E-commerce giant Amazon has registered another case at the Delhi High Court in its bid to prevent the Reliance-Future Group deal and has asked for Future Group’s promoter Kishore Biyani to be detained in a civil prison.

Boohoo on Monday confirmed that it has bought the Debenhams brand for £55m. It will use it to move into beauty and homewares, extend its own brand offering, operate a giant online marketplace and grow internationally.

The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has demanded immediate government action against e-commerce platforms Flipkart and Amazon, and a number of others, for alleged regulation violations. 

Fashion’s latest show-in-a-book came from Loewe, in a collection unveiled Saturday that revolves around the work of Joe Brainard, the New York artist noted for Pop Art, subversive comic books and faux religious collage.

Not many designers can ever boast that they have entered a second half-century of career, but Sir Paul Smith can, and did, this week – celebrating with a remastered menswear collection of many of his greatest hits.

The architecture was almost as much a star as the clothes in the latest "performance broadcast" by the esteemed house of Hermès, which unveiled its Fall 2021 collection for men on Saturday. 

EU lawmakers have invited the chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to a Feb. 1 hearing in Brussels as they try to crack down on the powers of U.S. tech giants.

On Wednesday, the Competition Commission of India announced that it has approved Flipkart Investments Private Ltd’s bid to acquire a 7.8% minority stake in Aditya Birla Fashion. 

​ShopG, a social e-commerce platform, has raised $1.5 million (Rs 11 crore) seed round from Orios Venture Partners and RPSG Ventures.

​E-commerce marketplace Flipkart has launched the sixth edition of its 'India Ka Fashion Capital' campaign featuring Bollywood’s actors Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.

​Richemont’s third quarter — the all-important three months to the end of December — saw sales rising only 1%, although currency-neutral, they were up a healthier 5%, despite the “continuously volatile environment”.

Fresh from news of its forthcoming Simone Rocha collab, H&M has unveiled two more collabs with a sustainable Lee jeans hook-up for kids and a loungewear launch with “writer, performer and storyteller” Yrsa Daley-Ward.