Free-spending tourists in Europe are expected to drive brisk second quarter sales at French luxury groups LVMH, Gucci-owner Kering and Hermes, helping to offset the impact of disruptions in China from Covid restrictions.

Shopify Inc on Tuesday announced a partnership with YouTube to allow merchants to sell through the video platform, as it looks to tap into the growing number of content creators launching their own e-commerce stores.

Fashion show India Fashion City Tour will hold an edition in Bengaluru on June 17at WelcomHotel by ITC Hotels for a runway show and networking sessions among other features.

Some six months after the passing of its menswear creative director, Louis Vuitton displayed another nine looks designed by the late Virgil Abloh in the house’s Fall-Winter 2022 Spin-Off Show of menswear held in Bangkok.

Major global brands will “continue betting on physical retail to drive sales in resilient destination cities”, a Savills report says. And it named New York, Paris and London as “the most attractive cities for retailers”.

Sustainable womenswear brand Anavila will hold launch events in Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai this month to launch its new Khadi line for summer titled ‘Quiet’.

Women’s luxury fusion wear brand Papa Don't Preach by Shubhika will travel to the U.S. this month and hold a pop-up shopping fair in Los Angeles to launch its new collection ‘Nazar Na Lage’ in the city. 

Womenswear and accessories brand MoonRay will hold a pop-up shop in collaboration with shopping events business The Sorbet Soiree on April 23 at the Hyatt Regency in New Delhi. 

​Luxury giant Hermès was the latest big name to update on recent trading on Thursday and it reported what we’ve seen elsewhere so far this year — “strong sales momentum across all business lines in all areas”.

Business-to-customer shopping fair Fashionista, currently in Aurangabad, will travel to Jalgaon, Nashik, Kanpur, and Lucknow this April to bring together local brands and showcase their products in non-metro locations.

Textile artist Isabelle Moulin travelled to Murshidabad to ascertain its potential for a bilateral project between France and India and said India has the potential to play a leading role in the evolving silk market.

Swiss duty-free retailer Dufry expects to reopen more than 90% of its sales capacity by April as travel rebounds from the pandemic slump, it said on Tuesday, after its 2021 turnover met its worst case scenario forecast.

​Hermès was the latest luxury group to signal a strong recovery on Friday with the French firm’s Q4 and full-year sales highlighting the resilience of the biggest global luxury names both during and after the pandemic.

The India Pavilion at Expo2020 in Dubai has completed 100 days of promoting a range of Indian cultures and industries and, as of January 8, the pavilion has recorded 740,356 visitors. 

Trade show for women entrepreneurs Business Women Expo will run from March 11 to 13 at the Hitex Exhibition Centre in Hyderabad and will showcase around 150 women-led businesses in the city.

Ready-to-wear designer Payal Singhal has brought her ‘PS Travelling Trunk Show’ to Dubai and has launched her latest collection ‘Suroor’ at multi-brand boutique The Rack by Kachins in Jumeirah.