​ASOS is big and the online fashion retailer is expected to get much bigger in the next three-to-four years. That’s according to the firm’s first-ever economic impact report complied by Oxford Economics.

​It’s being heralded as a venture to "redefine how consumers use retail spaces". It’s called The Campus and is being developed to include pop-up retail, flexible workspace, and an urban food hall. 

French leather goods label Lancel, owned by the Piquadro group, recorded sales worth €21.4 million in Q3, equivalent to a 28.8% rise, and accounting for a 46.9% share of the Italian group's total sales.

​Early signs of the confidence shown by workers returning to their offices saw a boost for UK high street footfall in the latest week. Footfall across UK retail destinations rose 1.5%, according to Springboard.

Covid-19 is still an issue for Leeds Group. The UK-based fabrics and haberdashery wholesaler and retailer’s half-year to 23 November 2021 saw it continuing to struggle.

​All dressed up and somewhere to go. Christmas 2021 was a season of a return to socialising, albeit on a slimmed-down scale compared to 2020’s restrictions. That meant consumers upped their spend on fashion and beauty.

​JD Sports Fashion is turning its attention to esports, the booming international video games competition arena. The UK’s biggest athletic sportswear retailer has signed a commercial partnership deal with Excel Esports.

SMCP’s shareholders met in a general meeting on Friday and dismissed the Chinese group’s representatives from the board. Christophe Chenut, Xavier Veret and Natalia Nicolaidis have been named in their place.

​Swedish fashion house Filippa K has named Liisa Kessler as its new Creative Director. It’s a big move for the label as she succeeds brand founder Filippa Knutsson, who stepped away from the role as far back as 2019.

​Two key executives who helped to shape UK retail died in the last few days. Paul Myners was the former chairman of M&S and Landsec and John Sainsbury was the driving force behind the supermarket chain for 23 years.

​Eyewear giant Safilo has further extend its control of Privé Revaux, adding to its existing 64.2% stake so that it now owns 81.9% of the company.

Former Farfetch COO Andrew Robb is in the running to be the next CEO of ASOS, a report has claimed. There had been speculation in recent weeks that Robb was a contender for one of global fashion's top leadership posts.

A welcome return to ruddy health at Prada, where Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons unveiled their best menswear collection to date, worn by the city’s best cast, on a sunny Sunday in Milan.

Nothing like a new management to liberate a venerable brand and unleash the potential of a talented designer. Which was very much the case on Sunday, when Kean Etro staged one of his snappiest collections for the house.

​Fashion retail giant Next has cut sick pay for unvaccinated staff who have to self-isolate because of exposure to Covid-19.

​Nike is to open a Nike Unite location at the Landsec-operated Gunwharf Quays outlet shopping centre in Portsmouth in the spring, as part of the US brand's upsizing programme at the waterfront destination.