It’s official. Only the Brave (OTB), the key company in the fashion empire of Renzo Rosso, has acquired Jil Sander, the Hamburg-born label known as the highest expression of minimalism in fashion.

E-commerce platform Amazon India announced on Friday that it will launch a storefront dedicated to over 450 women led small scale businesses and has partnered with UN Women for the initiative.

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.

After a “turbulent” trading year, it certainly wasn’t all bad news for Coats Group despite delivering mostly negative numbers in its 12-month trading statement to 31 December on Thursday.

On March 17, the Spanish apparel group will inaugurate new facilities at its headquarters in Arteixo (A Coruña), home to the Zara.com studios and staff, and to Zara Man’s central design office.

Building work will begin at the end of 2021, and the Catalan fashion group’s new Barcelona-based facilities will be fully operational in 2024. The new R&D and innovation centre will extend over an area of 93,400 m2.

Digital payments platform Phonepe has claimed to be the leader in its segment after processing over 97 crore transactions in February.

Online retailer Amazon’s new Polish website went live on Tuesday morning, the company said, marking a significant intensification of competition in the country’s booming e-commerce sector.

As Walmart-owned e-commerce giant Flipkart prepares for its initial public offering, the business has appointed Hemant Badri as senior vice president for its supply chain operations, among other leadership changes.

The Confederation for All India Traders will hold a fresh nationwide agitation against government goods and service tax regulations from March 5 to April 5.  

​The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) e-commerce platform has generated revenue of over Rs 1 crore ($135,876) in less than a year of its launch.

Serious editors had to open Sunday watching an MM6 show video in Milan, tune into New York for Tom Ford’s latest ideas, and finish in Paris, where Sonia Rykiel unveiled its first collection since insolvency in 2019.

Swedish “buy now, pay later” company Klarna on Thursday reported a jump in transactions using its platform and in net operating income in 2020, helped by its expansion in the United States and other markets.

Apex Global Brands, a brand management and licensing organisation that markets a portfolio of high-quality lifestyle brands it owns, creates, and elevates, is being taken over by Galaxy Universal.

The Uttar Pradesh government has made a provision of ₹10 crore in its 2021-22 budget to preserve and promote the art and artisans of traditional ‘matikala'.

Fashionistas will have to log on to soak up the glamour at Milan Fashion Week, which remains online a year after the coronavirus first swept into northern Italy.