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Julian Klausner’s Dries Van Noten was the winner of a Paris men’s season where grand statements risked overpowering the fashion, reports Angelo Flaccavento.

Streetwear is by no means dead, but its customers are changing. Today they're embracing a diverse wardrobe that mixes logo T-shirts with heritage brands and traditional menswear or luxury.

The humble trainer, once the reserve of football fans, Britpop kids and the odd skateboarder, has become as ubiquitous as battered Converse All Stars in the 00s indie sleaze years.

Rick Owens, Dries Van Noten, Loewe and Lemaire were standouts at a men’s fashion week where the volume was both turned up to ten and kept low, writes Angelo Flaccavento.

The Paris menswear shows had a postcard-like feel, but there were standouts that proposed a shift in dress as well as a spectacle, writes Angelo Flaccavento.

Four months after renewed demands for racial justice hit the fashion and beauty industries, what — beyond symbolic gestures — has been done, and what will it take to make initiatives like the 15 Percent Pledge work?

Covid-19 has exacerbated pre-existing weaknesses for America’s big luxury players, while US President Donald Trump’s gross mismanagement of the pandemic is only deepening the damage.

The retailer, facing growing pains of its own, is launching a new 'Innovators Programme' to bolster the fledgling labels that help set it apart from competitors in a crowded luxury e-commerce market.

'If you’re a brand now and you have no humility, no honesty, you’re completely screwed,' the designer tells Tim Blanks as they discuss Loewe's Spring 2020/2021 collection.

Post-pandemic, a further shift away from wholesale by bigger labels could benefit emerging brands. But there will be a sting in the tail for some.