Frasers Group enters fray as Harvey Nichols bidding war heats up
Frasers Group has gained approval to take part in the auction for luxury department stores chain Harvey Nichols, despite reported opposition from some luxury brand suppliers. Read More
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ASOS names Rina Lipa style dilemma director, Lizzie Jones returns to head global trading
ASOS has made two key appointments, one much more high-profile than the other but both equally important. On the guaranteed-headline-grabber front, it has announced Rina Lipa as its ‘style dilemma director’. Read More
Toast accelerates US expansion, consolidates West Coast retail model
With the opening of its first store in Los Angeles, the British brand Toast is continuing its international expansion- one that is as discreet as it is well-thought-out. Read More
In Canada, former fashion magnate Peter Nygard has once again been convicted of sexual assault
The former fashion magnate was once again found guilty of sexual assault by a Montreal court on Monday, while already serving an 11-year prison sentence in Toronto and also facing prosecution in the US. Read More
Fashion Cities Coalition launches to tackle the climate emergency
The ‘Fashion Cities Coalition,’ launched by Paris Good Fashion, brings together eight cities around the world and aims to pool solutions to make the fashion industry more sustainable. Read More
Where France and Spain have never stopped playing on the same team
There may be no more durable experiment in Spanish-French teamwork than the existence of Andorra. Since the Middle Ages, the landlocked principality has two heads of state, one from each side of its border. But even though both of the larger countries that engulf it are founding members of the Eurozone — providing the currency…
Maine Democrats will square off in first Senate debate since Platner’s withdrawal
The first debate on Thursday in Maine’s flash Democratic primary may feature a crowded stage. Eight candidates to replace Graham Platner on the ballot have been invited to the debate in Portland, the organizer said Tuesday. News Center Maine, which is sponsoring the event, had initially invited three people who ran for governor — Troy…
Missing in action: King Felipe, Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron
There’s been no shortage of top political figures attending World Cup matches to cheer on their home teams, but when Spain faces off against France in the tournament’s semifinals in Dallas today, neither the country’s head of state nor its head of government will be in the stands. Spanish King Felipe VI traveled to Guadalajara,…
The drama spoiling a city’s World Cup moment
DALLAS, Texas — The World Cup was supposed to be Dallas’s moment to shine. The city is famously image-conscious, and the powers-that-be trumpeted the fact that more Cup matches were scheduled here than any other host city. It seemed like a coup for a town whose football team (the other kind of football) bills itself…
Burnham: New law strikes at ‘cover-up culture’ over soccer disaster
LONDON — A police cover-up after a 1989 football stadium tragedy was seminal in shaping soon-to-be new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s political outlook. Burnham used his first speech upon returning to the House of Commons this evening as a member of parliament to hail a proposed new Hillsborough law — named after the Sheffield…