Unibail Rodamco Westfield has reported H1 results and continued to see “significant Covid-19-related disruption” in the first six months. But it also highlighted its ongoing “resilience in tough operating conditions”.

Selfridges is for sale with a formal auction process about to start. It hasn’t been announced by its owners, the Westons, but a news report said Credit Suisse will be canvassing prospective buyers “imminently”.

Big operational changes at MySale have borne fruit. The online fashion and lifestyle retailer's shift to an Australia/New Zealand focus while scaling the business to a new marketplace seller platform has worked well.

​Fast-growing fashion retail giant Next said on Wednesday that it had easily beaten its own expectations for full-price sales, with the last 11 weeks seeing an 18.6% surge compared to the same period in 2019.

​In a month that's shaping up to be huge as far as luxury deals are concerned, the latest news is that LVMH is boosting its stake in Off-White. Virgil Abloh's streetwear label will now be 60% owned by the French giant. 

​Etro is looking to future-proof its business and has revealed a “strategic partnership” with L Catterton Europe that it said will be the “start of a new phase of growth”

UK online retail group Very could be in line for a stock market listing. Its private owners in the Barclay family are reportedly considering a possible flotation or sale of the business early in 2022.

Department store Liberty has filed its results for the year to the end of January and said that it was "significantly impacted" by the three separate Covid lockdown in the UK that dented footfall to its London flagship.

The house of Karl Lagerfeld is to open a luxury villa estate named Karl Lagerfeld Villas Marbellas by end 2021 in a deal with Sierra Bianca Estates.

​Boohoo Group has signed a partnership deal with Alshaya Group to build on the presence of Debenhams in the Middle East and also take other brands in its portfolio to the region via stores rather than just online. 

The Englewood, Colorado-based parent company of retail platforms including QVC and HSN announced on Tuesday that David Rawlinson II will be joining the group as president and CEO on October 1, 2021.

Paul Smith Group Holdings, the company that owns the Paul Smith trademarks, has filed its annual results for the year to June 30 2020 and said that the final quarter of that year was hit hard by the pandemic.

​Hermès reopened its via Montenapoleone store in Milan on July 9 and said it starts a “a new chapter in the history that has linked Italy to the French house since 1987”.

Positive news for UK fashion retailers on Friday. Total like-for-like fashion sales skyrocketed 73.7% in June, albeit from a base of -20.9% for June last year, bolstered in part by steady spending online.

As the pandemic caused major disruption in 2020 and early 2021, out of stock messages were frequent. But while they’ve become rarer recently, non-availability of the goods that customers want to buy is still a problem.

​The Westfield name is going to be much better known in Europe from September with malls giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) set to rebrand six of its locations in four markets on the continent as Westfield only.