President Emmanuel Macron celebrated the opening of 19M, Chanel’s new center of couture and fashion skills, carefully praising it as an expression of a cultural revolution in France.

Paris menswear season – showing clothes for winter 2022 - opened Tuesday with an impressive trio of collections from three very disparate young designers, underlining the city's ability to attract dynamic, new talent.

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.

Right when you were thinking one could drown in all the laudable sustainable menswear on display in Milan, along comes Dolce & Gabbana to wake the whole city up with some moda alla Machine Gun Kelly on Saturday. 

The brothers Caten returned to their Canadian roots this season with a DSquared2 collection ideal for Deep North dandies and hipster trappers presented Friday, the opening day of the Milan menswear season.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America has released its official New York Fashion Week lineup for February, which sees a host of new and big-name designers set to showcase their latest collections in the Big Apple.

Finally, a proper actual live runway show of re-defined masculine menswear in Pitti, staged late Wednesday inside a Pucci family Palazzo in Florence, courtesy of gender-bender designer Ervin Latimer.

They may be letting unvaccinated tennis players into Australia, but here at Pitti Uomo 101 in Florence, Covid passes are obligatory, each entrant is temperature checked, and everyone wears a PPF8 masks. 

Designer JW Anderson has called off his planned Milan runway show for next weekend and will instead unveil his next menswear collection digitally.

Due to the worsening pandemic situation and challenges facing foreign visitors/ exhibitors travelling to Paris, the organisers have postponed trade shows Salon International de la Lingerie and Interfilière to June 18-20.

The global swimwear market is expected to register growth at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3 percent from 2021 to 2026, according to a new report available on ResearchAndMarkets.com. 

The cancellations concern five shows scheduled in Frankfurt, Germany: Premium, Neonyt, Seek, The Ground and new event Val:ue. The organisers are trying to stage an alternative programme.

The multi-service agency has bolstered its senior staff by naming Jessica Juliano as head of omni-channel operations, Giovanni Pungetti as head of Asia and Giovanni de Marchi, ex Slam Jam, as head of brand partnerships.

New York city-based swimwear brand Andie Swim announced on Tuesday that is has secured a Series B funding round of $18.5 million.

Kim Jones returned to his hometown on Thursday with a Dior Men counter-culture couture collection inspired by Jack Kerouac’s key novel 'On the Road', and feted by Grace Jones.