Finally, Paris Fashion Week had an actual live catwalk show. A drive-in runway event witnessed Thursday night by a few score of editors and influencers from inside Citroen DS7s and staged inside the AccorArena.

​If anybody needed confirmation of how important fashion resale has become, it came on Monday with the announcement by France’s Vestiaire Collective of a new €178m financing round backed by Kering, among others.

Like many other online fashion retailers, Farfetch saw soaring demand last year and said on Thursday that its 2020 gross merchandise value topped $3bn, up 49% year-on-year. Meanwhile revenue rose 64% to $1.7bn.

Jewellery brand Tribe Amrapali has partnered with jutti brand Fizzy Goblet and launched a collaborative ‘Lucky Charms’ collection of shoes with matching accessories. 

​Sales at Kering's leading brand, Gucci, suffered a bigger-than-expected drop in Q4 as Covid continued to dent luxury shopping and crimp tourist spending in particular.

​Footwear major Liberty Shoes Ltd reported a 299 percent surge at Rs 6 crore ($822,647) in its net profit for the third quarter ended December 2020.

Alexander McQueen and Vestiaire Collective have unveiled the first designer partnership for the resale site's pioneering new luxury label Brand Approved programme.

​YNAP’s Net-A-Porter and Mr Porter luxury e-tailers have launched new widgets for iPhone and iPad users, that allow customers “to preview and directly access the What’s New pages for both stores from their home screen”.

No one could fault the latest crop of designer showing, in New York, for effort. In a busy Monday, with almost 30 collections, their arty videos and polished ideas were a reminder of how hard  people have been working.

Jason Wu opened this month’s New York Fashion Week on the Sunday night of Valentine’s Day, with a nostalgic ode to Coca Cola capitalism. Imitation of Christ followed him with pure whimsicality.

Asics was unsurprisingly loss-making last year but the company was upbeat as China and e-commerce outperformed, while it made market share gains in key categories in EMEA.

Opening Ceremony may have closed down its destination boutique in Soho last spring, but the brand is very much alive and kicking, as the latest collection from its founders – Carol Lim and Humberto Leon - trumpets.

Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo filed lawsuits in US courts on Thursday accusing third-party sellers of using the e-commerce site to sell counterfeits of the Italian brand's products.

​Diesel and Maison Margiela owner OTB saw sales and profits being dented by the pandemic last year, a disappointing result after it had returned to profit in 2019.

Tag Heuer has inked a partnership with automaker Porsche, and launched the link-up by unveiling a new watch, the Tag Heuer Carrera Porsche Chronograph. 

Sébastien Jondeau, the former bodyguard and personal assistant of Karl Lagerfeld, has written a memoir in collaboration with Virginie Mouzat, called "Ça va, cher Karl ?"* [How are you, dear Karl].