While China has now reopened its borders after more than two years of Covid restrictions, the country is forecast to become a major tourist destination in a report from the World Travel and Tourism Council.

​Burberry’s Q3 update on Wednesday showed a slowdown in sales growth as — like luxury peer Richemont on the same day — it reported a big impact from Covid in China.

Luxury giant Richemont reported Q3 sales up 8% on Wednesday, saying that despite ongoing Chinese weakness, tourists were returning to Europe and Japan.

Glitz and 1970s cuts were centre-stage this week when Chanel brought a special show to Senegal that places the spotlight on the work of its craftspeople.

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees that WhatsApp and Messenger would drive the company's next wave of sales growth, as he sought to assuage concerns about Meta after its first mass layoffs.

​Burberry is entering “the next phase”, the luxury company said when delivering its interim results on Thursday, with still-new CEO Jonathan Akeroyd preparing for an evolved approach under Daniel Lee.

Meta Platforms Inc's Instagram said on Monday it was looking into an issue preventing thousands of its users from accessing the photo-sharing application.

Brushing off higher prices, affluent spenders are continuing to splash out on luxuries including $10,000 handbags and high-end perfumes, trading updates from Hermes, Kering, and L'Oreal showed on Thursday.  

According to early data, Indian consumers are lapping up everything from cars, houses and TVs to travel and jewellery in the festive season that began last month, despite economic gloom elsewhere in the world.

Designer duo Abraham & Thakore showcased their Autumn-Winter ’22 collection called ‘Time Travel: Past, Present and Future’ in partnership with Fashion Design Council of India at the Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai.

The Rekhta Foundation will hold its first ever ‘Anjas Mahotsav’ to celebrate Rajasthani language, culture, and crafts in Jodhpur from October 29 to 30 at Garh Govind.

Luggage and accessories brand Samsonite saw its sales in India more than double in the first half of the year as the country continues to reopen and embrace travel in the wake of Covid.

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.