ASOS appoints commercial exec, adds Australian brand I.Am.Gia to fashion roster
Published September 12, 2025 Digital fashion/lifestyle giant ASOS has appointed its first Customer & Commercial…
Harrods’ fashion buying chief hails Roksanda, Erdem and Burberry as key London collections
Published September 23, 2025 Harrods’ top fashion buyer, Simon Longland, has called out Roksanda, Erdem, Patrick McDowell, Priya Ahluwalia and Burberry as some of the biggest successes from London Fashion Week. See fashion showRoksanda – Spring-Summer2026 – Womenswear – Royaume-Uni – Londres – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight But he was hard-pressed to highlight the key trends because he…
Trust doctors over Trump on paracetamol, Wes Streeting says
PA Media Wes Streeting has urged people to listen to UK doctors and scientists, not Donald Trump, when it comes to paracetamol use Pregnant women should ignore Donald Trump’s claims that taking paracetamol could lead to their child having autism, the UK’s health secretary has said. “I trust doctors over President Trump,” Wes Streeting told…
You tab, Google Play Games reimagined
Head to play.google.com/googleplaygames to get started. If you’re a game developer, learn more about unlocking greater business growth with the Google Play Games Level Up program. You Tab will make Google Play truly yours All these new updates come together in one convenient place: the new You tab. It’s a home base with curated content,…
Pull&Bear makes its catwalk debut in London with Lueder collaboration
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 23, 2025 Inditex’s youth-oriented fashion label continues to add to its list of milestones. Pull&Bear staged its first catwalk show on 20 September during London Fashion Week, in partnership with emerging designer Marie Lueder. The collection, developed jointly with the German designer, forms part of the BFC Newgen…
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
“If [a tool is] facing the general public, then using retraction as a kind of quality indicator is very important,” says Yuanxi Fu, an information science researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There’s “kind of an agreement that retracted papers have been struck off the record of science,” she says, “and the people who…
AllSaints/John Varvatos make key promotions to leadership team
Published September 23, 2025 Premium contemporary fashion brand AllSaints has announced two senior management promotions to the global leadership team for the group that includes its eponymous label and John Varvatos. Alex Didymiotis Alex Didymiotis has been appointed chief people officer, while Alfie Meekings is now chief transformation and technology officer, “ensuring that both of…
FatFace results show transitional year, but company is upbeat for the future
Published September 23, 2025 FatFace — or more specifically Fulham Parent Limited — has filed its first set of financial results including a full year of trading as part of Next. It fleshes out the basic figures for the year that it issued back in August. FatFace x V&A The accounts, covering the year to…
Can the UK expand airports and still hit climate targets?
Plans for a second runway at Gatwick have been approved by the government, making it the latest in a string of planned UK airport expansions to receive support. The Gatwick decision could lead to an extra 100,000 flights per year. If Heathrow gets permission to build a third runway – which the government has said…
Elsewhere in LFW: Rory William Docherty, AK/OK Anamika Khanna
Published September 23, 2025 Two designers with careers on slow but steady boils, both working far distant from London -Rory William Docherty and Anamika Khanna from India- helped make exotic and inspiring additions to the last day of London Fashion Week. See fashion showRory William Docherty – Spring-Summer2026 – Womenswear – Royaume-Uni – Londres –…
This surprising building material is strong, cheap, and sustainable
Engineers in Australia have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete’s carbon footprint, while reducing waste going to landfill. This innovative material, called cardboard-confined rammed earth, is composed entirely of cardboard, water and soil – making it reusable and recyclable. In Australia alone, more than 2.2 million tons of cardboard and…
