Italian luxury label Salvatore Ferragamo recorded a 2.3% rise in revenue in 2019, reaching €1.37 billion, despite plummeting sales in Hong Kong in the third and fourth quarter of the year.

Watanabe, who will star in Kate Spade's Spring 2020 handbag campaign, earned the crown as Japan's most followed person on Instagram in 2019, with a current follower count of 9 million. 

According to data analytics firm Launchmetrics, sustainability and diversity are two of the biggest themes currently driving the changing conversation around fashion weeks, as formats and front rows continue to evolve.

LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group, posted yet another year of record sales, racking up global turnover of €53.7 billion in 2020, a 15% increase on the previous year.

Jeremy Scott has cancelled his upcoming runway show in New York, in a move that will significantly weaken the American fashion catwalk season. Instead, the designer will show during haute couture in Paris in July.

Alessandra Facchinetti has been named creative director of Harlan + Holden, an Asian fashion company that defines itself as the world’s first “time-saving” clothing brand.

The Trump administration plans to unveil efforts on Friday to crack down on counterfeit goods sold on major e-commerce sites and urge companies to do more to vet third-party sellers and increase self-policing efforts.

LVMH brand Louis Vuitton will open its largest flagship store in Japan in Osaka’s Shinsaibashi on February 1 and will open its first café and restaurant inside the flagship store on February 15.  

The second-hand clothing chain owned by Japan’s GEO Holdings announced on Thursday that it is opening its fourth U.S. location in Torrance, California.

A major landlord in London’s Covent Garden has announced a number of new openings in the area with one of the most interesting being a forthcoming flagship/concept store from Jigsaw.

English designer Anya Hindmarch has quietly regained joint ownership of her namesake fashion business, after retaking the chief executive position to lead a turnaround.

Aspinal of London has hired financial advisers from KPMG to explore its strategic options if an attempt to sell the business fails to find a suitable buyer.

The spread of the deadly coronavirus in China could mean the world’s luxury industry seeing sales dented by fewer Chinese shoppers travelling abroad, tax-free payments specialist Planet said on Thursday.

Multibrand retailer Wolf & Badger has seen a “consistent rise in overall global sales and strong performance from its flagship stores in London and New York” to give it another period of higher full-year revenues.

Ulyana Sergeenko showed her new couture collection at Paris' Hôtel Mona Bismarck, unveiling pieces partly inspired by the famous style icon that owned the mansion, with Dita von Teese on hand to present the creations.

German-based luxury fashion designer Steffen Schraut is set to launch a handbag range in July in partnership with the Smiley Company.