The British Fashion Council announced Christopher Bailey as the winner of the prestigious Designer of the Year Award. Ten other leading fashion figures were also honoured at the 2009 British Fashion Awards, supported by Swarovski, held at the Royal Courts

Further developing its international expansion, Spanish fashion brand Mango opens in Iraq. With this opening, the international retailer is now present in every country in the region, which it first entered in 1997 with the opening of its first store...

The new management model in the fashion business should be focused on the customer’s response. The customer today is not the customer before January 1st, 2005 and it is not only this date that made the customer looking for more value when shopping...

Today, the country’s beach fashion can be found around the world, a success explained by their distinct design and high quality of creations...

More than 4,000 UK retail groups experienced major financial difficulty in November and early 2010 is expected to see a large number of chains collapsing, according to stark new research for Telegraph Media Group by Begbies Traynor, the corporate recovery

To my surprise I saw just a few disoriented ladies in the department and no men at all at the upper floor. The collection was lying on the shelves in good order without being messed by the impassioned customers...

Retailers less desperate than this time last year - levels of discounting lower than in 2008. According to analysis carried out this week by PwC, under half (43%) of high street retailers are currently advertising discounts or offering promotions ...

Marimekko has closed and re-organized its design team after the owner change. Samu-Jussi Koski, the beloved Marimekko fashion designer, and Minna Kemell-Kutvonen, who has worked for Marimekko for a long time, have chosen to become artistic directors...