​Valentino has formed a new cultural partnership and has been announced as the sponsor of the International Booker Prize 2024 ceremony.

The Kering label has announced a three-year partnership with London's leading museum of modern and contemporary art to promote young designers, and will be showing its Cruise 2025 collection at the museum on May 13.

French label Jacquemus is keen to strengthen its international presence. After opening in Paris and South Korea, designer Simon Porte Jacquemus has inaugurated a third store, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

The Boss brand is opening the doors of Boss House Bali to a “select group” of Hugo Boss Experience members, as well as VIP customers, media, and “key tastemakers” from Asia-Pacific with an online global element too.

Italian luxury group Brunello Cucinelli said on Wednesday its sales rose 16.5% at current exchange rates in the first quarter, driven by growth in all regions, including Asia.

​Harvey Nichols has faced tough conditions in recent years but it’s now hoping for better times ahead with the announcement of a new CEO from one of luxury's major labels.

During China’s biggest single-day shopping festival last November, upscale labels like Ralph Lauren, Burberry and Net-A-Porter saw purchases far surpass those seen just a year earlier on the e-commerce platform Tmall. 

A new exhibition this summer at one of Britain’s best-known stately homes, Chatsworth, celebrates the image and legacy of the late dowager Duchess Deborah Devonshire through the lens of Erdem's latest collection.

Led by women's artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri, the Fall 2024 collection pays homage to the synergy of New York and Christian Dior.

Hermes has potential to surpass LVMH’s flagship Louis Vuitton in the coming years as the luxury industry’s biggest brand by turnover, according to Citigroup Inc. analysts.

​Stella McCartney has launched the second chapter of her Summer 2024 campaign for Earth Month 2024 – collaborating with indigenous advocate and climate warrior Quannah Chasinghorse. 

While Easter remains a major shopping event on the retail calendar, this year’s four-day holiday (29 March-1 April) was a particularly strong one, given cost of living restraints. 

The Italian label is multiplying its projects in the region, where it already has around forty points of sale, notably by strengthening its presence in Saudi Arabia, with new boutiques and a café in Riyadh.

​Valentino has opened the doors of a major new flagship on upscale Sloane Street in London, which it said continues the label’s “evolution towards a more intimate, design-led retail dimension”.

​London-based fashion and accessories brand Luca Faloni has taken its first step into the Swiss market with the opening of a boutique in Zurich. A Paris boutique is also planned for this year.

​High-end men’s streetwear label Represent has signed up for a new London flagship, taking space at landlord GPE’s 135/141 Wardour Street property.