​Secondhand luxury fashion platform Rebelle is closing and merging with its parent company Vinted’s own platform, 18 months after Vinted acquired the business.

Two exemplary designers and independent thinkers staged consecutive menswear runway shows Thursday evening in Paris, in powerful reminders of how this is turning out to be a vintage season for men’s fashion. 

Chloé, Alaïa and Dunhill owner Richemont has reported its results for Q3 — the all-important ‘Golden Quarter’ — with sales up by 4% on a reported basis to €5.593 billion, or 8% at constant exchange rates (CER).

Grace Wales Bonner looked to America this season in a collection inspired by time spent researching in Howard University in Washington, staged in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.

Martino Pessina has already taken up his post as CEO of the textile discounter, a position that has been vacant since the autumn. He succeeds Tjeerd Jegen, who left in October to join bicycle manufacturer Accell.

The event's first French edition showcased some 40 innovative materials (fungal alternatives to leather, seaweed derivates, bio-polyester etc.), whose future usage was debated by professionals from various industries.

London’s Savile Row may be know as the home of made-to-order menswear, but more and more global brands are seeking to grab a bigger slice of the lucrative pie and Italy’s Etro is the latest to expand in this area.

Milan Fashion Week has shone a spotlight on the amazing craftsmanship of Italian fabric producers, via both experienced and emerging designers like Neil Barrett, Simone Botte, and Federico Cina and Pronounce.

Kering, plus Johnstons of Elgin, Eilen Fisher and DyStar have joined forces with Spiber “to build a global circularity solution for transforming end-of-use textiles and agricultural by-products into new material”.

Man’s relationship with nature was the theme of the latest Prada menswear collection shown Sunday in Milan, the artistic highlight of the Italian menswear season so far.

Milano Moda Uomo announced a counterblast to AI this season, as houses like Brioni and Corneliani presented their collections with mock-ups of ateliers, while Philippe Model focused on contemporary French cool.

Maybe we should rechristen it Emporio Couture? So finely finished and so coolly embroidered was the latest Emporio Armani collection presented on a sub-zero, blue sky Saturday in Milan. 

No VIC clients enjoy their brand as much as those of Dolce & Gabbana, who showed up in force this season to rub shoulders with K-pop stars and the outlandishly rich, at a dynamic menswear show.

Silvia Fendi keeps on getting more inventive. Admirably so, in her latest menswear show on Saturday for Fendi, the key Italian fashion house in LVMH’s mammoth luxury empire.

DSquared2 goes distressed and destroyed, Kiton trumpets tailoring, and Miu Miu Select fetes Cailee Spaeny in a contrasting opening Friday of action of Milano Moda Uomo.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) has unveiled the preliminary schedule for New York Fashion Week (NYFW) Fall/Winter 2024.