Taking place from October 18 to 22, the next edition of Los Angeles Fashion Week has just announced the list of designers invited to walk the runway, as well as presentations.

​H&M Group continues to grow its Cos label at steady pace with it this week unveiling a new wholesale deal with Global Fashion Group's The Iconic to take its collections to more customers in Australia and New Zealand. 

​Shein’s British arm — Shein Distribution UK Limited — has filed its accounts at Companies House for the 16 months up to the end of last year and it showed revenue reaching £1.121 billion.

In full expansion, the Fred Segal brand, now headed by Jeff Lotman, has just opened a new store at the Marin Country Mart, north of San Francisco. A sixth store will open in Santa Monica next October.

​In what it called a “groundbreaking partnership that fuses the realms of gaming and fashion”, Nordcurrent’s app Pocket Styler has joined forces with Marc Cain in the latter’s 50th anniversary year. 

​Quiz’s trading update on Tuesday showed the occasionwear-focused fashion brand continuing to face the major headwinds in Q1 that it was battling in its last financial year.

​The cost of living crisis may be ongoing, but companies clearly have spotted a willingness among their core customers to pay a higher price for a line they see as offering better quality and strong design. 

So, admiral blue is the new black. And plaid should come in hunter green and yellow daisy, just like the enormous tent in Highbury, where Burberry staged its latest show on a cloudy Monday.

Every editor, buyer or critic in London showed for Fashion East on this weekend, as well they should given its organizer Lulu Kennedy’s legendary antenna for new talent.

UK property giant Hammerson is continuing to attract key retailers with two new openings supporting its strategy “to enliven and reinvigorate its portfolio of city centre assets”.

​Frasers Group’s plan to create an upscale chain of department stores called Frasers may have seemed to take a back seat to its Flannels chain expansion, but it’s still very much a major project for the firm.

​Hugo Boss’s reborn Hugo label is marking its link-up with “Gen Z icon” Bella Poarch with the the release of a collab collection that has seen its global launch in Frasers Group’s Flannels X Oxford Street flagship.

Dune London has unveiled its latest collaboration for Autumn/Winter 23, with a footwear edit curated by TV host and former pro footballer, Jermaine Jenas, launching on 19 September. 

A Sunday that drenched London in intense showers didn’t wash out the fashion, with two stellar collections from Simone Rocha and Erdem, and more than honorable displays by Tove and Holzweiler. 

Waste management firm MyGroup is building a sustainable textiles factory at its Hull, North England, site supported by £500k funding.

On a sunny Saturday in London, three bold-face name designers presented contrasting visions of fashion, though unified in their common attempts to explore unexpected silhouettes, made of unlikely raw materials.