Debenhams has confirmed that Radley’s chairman Mark Gifford, who’s also an ex-House of Fraser exec, is its new chairman. Speculation around him has been intense this week as the company continues its turnaround drive.

Encouraging footfall, by whatever means, is key to the success of physical stores these days and Next is aiming to boost its visitor traffic in select stores in a deal with O2.

A concept that bridges e-tail and retail and gives shoppers faster access to the clothes they've ordered as well as the ability to send them back quicker is a new initiative from landlord Grosvenor in Sweden.

The Ikea-Virgil Abloh collaboration launches next month and seems set for sell-out status with tickets for the first days already sold out in the UK and interest high internationally.

Selfridges is doubling down on its sustainability commitments and has launched a number of new labelling categories across its fashion, beauty and interiors offer. 

International shopper spending growth is slowing in the UK and that's bad news for luxury fashion labels, although on the plus side, those shoppers who do visit Britain seem to be spending more per transaction.

The French luggage and leather goods brand, bought by Samsonite in 2014, recently appointed Sébastien Valette as global general manager, succeeding Jonathan Dory.

With UK inflation at around 2%, a study predicting just a 0.8% increase in Christmas spend this year is bad news for stores. And it could be worse under a no-deal Brexit as the prediction would be scaled back to 0.2%.

A number of UK luxury brands have started a four-day trade mission to the US. It comes as the trade war between Donald Trump and the EU hits home with new tariffs being imposed this month.

In a 100% "Made in Germany" collaboration, ready-to-wear brand Boss and Meissen, Europe's oldest porcelain manufacturer, are preparing to bring out a joint collection for the end of the year.

Last week’s Brexit deal and the pulling of Saturday’s Parliamentary vote have left the UK retail sector back where it has been for the last three+ years, facing an uncertain future as consumers shun unnecessary spending.

H&M is expanding its focus on making fashion greener and revealed on Thursday that it has been collaborating with Ikea on a large-scale study, reviewing chemical content in post-consumer textile recycling. 

Bhavesh Naik, director of innovation and design at Napapijri, the sportswear brand owned by US group VF Corp., talks to FashionNetwork.com about the brand’s product development strategies.

UK high street and travel retail newsagent WH Smith has delivered a surprise with news that it’s buying US travel retail specialist Marshall Retail for $400m/£312m, radically expanding its travel retail chain.

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