​Vans has big news this week, revealing its new pinnacle category, OTW by Vans. This is “where elevated product and brand experiences come together with art, design, style, skate culture and entertainment”.

Collaborations are hugely important to Dr Martens and the footwear brand is set to launch one with global music platform and radio station NTS on Friday (22 June) “to celebrate individuality in all its forms”.

Smiley has linked up with fashion tech platform Space Runners to launch a collection of NFTs tied to physical products. It’s Smiley’s first move into NFTs and merges tech with real merchandise.

Pharrell Williams took over the center of Paris Tuesday evening for his debut runway show for Louis Vuitton, staged open air on Pont Neuf painted gold damier for one night.

​Will Frasers Group ever stop buying business or snapping up stakes in other companies? At the moment it seems unlikely and its latest buys this week are stakes in Boohoo Group and electricals retailer Currys.

​Kurt Geiger is to continue its international expansion after securing a new funding deal that has seen it refinancing its debt. The footwear retailer currently operates 70 standalone stores and 100+ concessions.

​Unscheduled trading updates are usually cause for alarm. But Monday saw one from Next and given that this is one of the most successful retailers in the UK, it's unsurprising that it contained good news, not bad.

Just when everyone in Italy has been sending out classic tailoring on their menswear runway, leave it to Prada to go in the opposite direction, and with punch.

Greg Pateras, the fashion CEO at Frasers Group has left the company after just under a year. He’d been in charge of acquired Manchester-based brands Misguided and I Saw It First.

The debut of star Pharrell Williams at Louis Vuitton is the hottest ticket at Paris Fashion Week as it kicks off on Tuesday, seen as a significant moment in the evolution of the multi-billion-dollar industry.

Doucal’s feted its 50th anniversary this year with exhibitions in Milan and Florence, where it lauded its loafers in an historic Florentine Garden. A family-owned business enjoying a period of extended growth.

Giorgio Armani looked east this season, ranging around Asia for influences, models and music in a beautiful Emporio Armani collection staged in his fashion theatre on Saturday evening.

Few designers in history can cut a snappier suit than Dolce & Gabbana, who staged an impressive lesson in stylish dressing and a brilliant display on directional tailoring on a sunny Saturday in Milan. 

The Roman house of Valentino opened the menswear runway season in Milan on a sunny Friday with a gently gentlemanly fashion statement in the city’s most famous university. 

LPP — the Poland-based owner of the Reserved and Sinsay brands, among others — has reported strong Q1 results with its revenues topping PLN3.6 billion, an increase of almost 20% year on year.

​Luxury footwear and accessories brand Malone Souliers has opened its first-ever department store concession and it’s starting at the top with a debut in the Shoe Heaven designer footwear department of London’s Harrods.