Olympia Le-Tan has created a handbag line inspired by the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, as a retrospective on the US painter is in full swing at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

​With UK retailers currently issuing profit warnings at a rapid rate, it was encouraging to see one with good news on Monday. Shoe Zone issued an update saying trading in the year to September 29 was strong.

As well as star models, the recent Fashion Weeks shone the spotlight on the rising talents who are busy making their names on the runway.

The online luxury menswear retailer has launched a capsule collection of ready-to-wear clothing and accessories with the prestigious Berluti brand. 

Following predictions from industry observers indicating Chinese company Icicle as the favourite to take over Carven, the French brand has confirmed that the premium fashion group is indeed the new owner of the house. 

The Italian house, which was recently acquired by Michael Kors, has decided to host its first runway for a pre-collection, with a pre-fall 2019 show in New York on December 2nd. 

The museum announced that 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' has become the museum's most visited exhibition, attracting over 1.6 million visitors.

Chairman Raffaele Caldarelli talks to FashionNetwork.com about his plans for the business: store openings, growth in Spain and France, expansion in India and South Korea, and a possible launch in Japan.

German start-up Fashion Cloud has said that it is joining forces with Dutch buying tool developer Nyon. The company will operate under the Fashion Cloud name from offices in Hamburg and Amsterdam.

​Rebag, a luxury handbag marketplace, has debuted its new bag rental service Rebag Infinity.

Antoine Arnault kicked off the Journées Particulières of LVMH on Thursday night in Paris, even if the executive admitted the actually debut was in New Zealand, at the luxury group’s Cloudy Bay winery. 

All items sold out less than an hour after the brand’s stores opened in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Nuremberg on Wednesday morning, according to the upmarket department store.

Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Princess Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on Friday in front of celebrities and Britain’s senior royals including Prince Harry and wife Meghan who wed at the same venue.

The long-running saga around House of Fraser stores continues to rumble on and news emerged on Friday that its new owner Sports Direct is to acquire the freehold of the Frasers building in Glasgow in a £95m deal.

​We know times are hard in UK retail, but BDO’s latest High Street Sales Tracker (HSST) really summed it up Friday with its release saying “the UK high street is suffering the worst year on record.”