​Hermès became the latest luxury group to announce a rebound on Friday as the upscale leather goods and fashion maker saw its sales soaring during Q2 and the first half as a whole.

Multi-brand e-commerce platform Snapdeal has seen its home category, including home textiles, grow by 70% since March 2020, boosted by pandemic spending trends.

Samyukta Nair’s sleepwear brand Dandelion has expanded its ‘Dandelion Living’ range and stepped into tableware, table linens, and other accessories with its new collection ‘Summer Sonnet’. 

From May 19 to 26, womenswear brand Amiraah and crafts retailer Sanatkada are running online fashion and lifestyle shopping fair ‘Karigari’ to support artisans across India.

Womenswear specialist Ritu Kumar is expanding its homeware collection, RK Home, as shoppers stay indoors, and plans to add collaborations to the subsidiary in June.

As Payal Singhal continues to expand its offerings, the brand has launched venue design service ‘PS Wedding’. The brand has also joined forces with accessories brand Joey and Pooh for another collaborative collection.

Swarovski, the world’s premier crystal supplier, has unveiled its latest new concept store, named Instant Wonder, a high-color boutique on Paris' Champs-Elysées.

Retail giant Inditex hasn’t come out of the pandemic year unscathed. But the strength of its business model appears to have carried it through so far and its performance since its fiscal year ended has been encouraging

Textile and homeware brand Ikai Asai is expanding its product categories, recently partnering with designer Sidhant Minocha on handmade linens, ahead of plans to launch a foundation.

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.

Luxury crystalware producer Baccarat is now controlled by a pool of international investment funds, which are not ruling out a subsequent sale or a restructuring of the French group.

The headquarters of the Swarovski crystal empire are every bit as glitzy as you might expect -- but the sparkle can't distract from a bitter family feud over the company's future.

​H&M Group has soft-launched an interesting new venture with Singular Society, a first-of-its-kind members brand that gives those who sign up “access to uncompromised life essentials at the price they cost to make”.

On December 18, Swedish retailer Ikea will open its second India store in Navi Mumbai. The business plans to open two further stores in 2021. 

​As many global consumers continue to be confined to their homes and want to make those environments as comfortable as possible, H&M’s Home unit has announced a collab with US fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg. 

Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee has partnered with UK-based luxury homeware brand Thomas Goode to launch a line of tableware created by artists from the Sabyasachi Art Foundation.