Tom Ford is stepping down as Chairman of the CFDA, bringing down the curtains on a three-year term at the organization, American fashion’s governing body, in a major suprise.  

Luxury fabric resale platform Nona Source has launched its first UK showroom at The Mills Fabrica in London. The platform re-values deadstock fabrics and leathers from LVMH Fashion & Leather Goods Maisons. 

Have bag, will travel, especially with the Pasticcino, the freshly edited Weekend Max Mara handbag which began a global jaunt this week in Venice.

Zara owner Inditex has signed an agreement worth more than 100 million euros to buy 30% of the recycled fabric to be produced by a Finnish company for three years in a push to use more sustainable materials.

​Mulberry has just launched its first carbon-neutral collection with a name “inspired by Mulberry’s commitment to becoming net zero by 2035”.

​Good news for UK online fashion sales. Not so good news for digital beauty sales. Even worse for the e-tail industry as a whole. And after weak April numbers, it suggests the digital boom could well be over.

American start-up VitroLabs Inc. has just raised $46 million to build and scale the world's first pilot production of cell-cultivated leather.

The brand, owned by JAJ in Europe and known for its leather jackets, is forecasting sales growth in 2021 and is gearing up for some high-profile collaborations and store openings this year. 

After being held in Milan last October, the trade fair is now heading to Berlin for the first time on May 17 and 18, featuring 80 exhibitors at Arena Berlin and a digital trade fair running in parallel. 

On tour in Italy, the CEO of Meta stopped over in Milan, where he met the Italian luxury industry's top players and discussed smart glasses with Leonardo Del Vecchio, president of EssilorLuxottica.

The house of Jean Paul Gaultier has unveiled an uber insider collab with hipster stylist Lotta Volkova, culled from the house’s archive. It goes on sale today. 

Primark, one of Europe's biggest fast fashion chains, has pledged to train an additional 125,000 smallholder cotton farmers in more sustainable farming methods in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh by the end of 2023.

​Bestseller is looking at the market for leather alternatives due to issues around the material and it has just invested in an advanced technology-based solution using single cells to grow leather in a lab.

​Industrial threads producer Coats Group said Tuesday that Anne Fahy is to stand down from her post as non-executive director (NED) requesting not to seek re-election at forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 18 May.

​Bestseller’s Jack & Jones label has become the first brand to use what it calls “game-changing” Pakistani cotton. It follows the first-ever harvest of certified in-conversion cotton coming from the country.

The company’s latest real estate acquisition in Scotland valued at €237 million represents almost a third of what Amancio Ortega will receive this week from the apparel firm's dividend payout.