The scheme will allow eligible new emerging British fashion brands and UK-based manufacturers to showcase at the upcoming edition of Pure London in July for a “nominal fee”.

The mirrors, powered by Masterpass, allow customers to personalise their changing room experience by choosing their preferred lighting, language and music, and cuts checkout queues by taking payments.

Instagram has added new features to allow users to shop directly from brands in Instagram Stories by clicking on stickers with a shopping bag icon.

Notonthehighstreet has lost its e-commerce director with Ollie Scheers having moved on after spending less than 18 months in the role. The job is now being shared between existing staff and executives.

May offered up a mixed picture for UK retail with footfall still down, but the decline slowing. Retail parks were buoyant but shopping centres suffering disproportionately, which is bad news for the fashion sector.

​UK supermarkets giant Sainsbury’s is gearing up for a future in which digital will become even more important than at present as sales for lines like Tu, Asda's George and the Argos offer increasingly move online.

Hanging sensory gardens, AI-infused walkways and dedicated wellness initiatives will be integral parts of the shopping centre of the future, according to a new vision unveiled by Westfield.

Struggling Mothercare said Friday that its company voluntary arrangement (CVA) proposals for certain of its subsidiaries had been approved by its creditors. The shares rose despite the firm dropping out of the FTSE100.

Net-a-Porter and Porter magazine have committed to cut plastic waste as the company unveils a new collaboration with environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans.

News of UK retailers cutting their store estates have dominated the headlines in the lasts weeks, but new research has warned that if department stores don’t improve their websites, their efforts will be in vain.

Tencent Holdings, which owns China’s top social media app WeChat, has scrapped an investment of up to 30 million yuan ($4.7 million) in a content start-up that has been criticized for its handling of copyright issues.

Renowned photographer Erwin Olaf has donated his core collection to the Rijksmuseum. The Dutch museum, home to Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, received 500 works by the photographer.

New European privacy regulations that go into effect on Friday will force companies to be more attentive to how they handle customer data.

The tech, designed to benefit consumers and retailers, includes a virtual personal shopper and a service that delivers shoppers’ bags straight to their cars.

Alphabet Inc’s Google sought to ease online publisher concerns on Thursday about the effects European data privacy rules going into effect in just a few hours will have on their ad business.