UK disposable income falls at fastest rate since 2023

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK household disposable income fell at its fastest rate in two years in the first quarter, potentially knocking one of Labour’s key economic targets off course. Real household disposable income per head — the inflation-adjusted…

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Hermès: Summer in the city

“Hot town, summer in the city,” were the lyrics to B.B. King’s greatest classic, and the leitmotif of an insouciantly chic Hermès collection staged on a steamy Saturday in Paris. See catwalkHermes – Spring-Summer2026 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Presented inside the Conseil de Surveillance, a temple to French 1930s Rationalist architecture,…

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Craig Green: From Abbey Road to Arts et Métiers

The most fertile imagination in menswear, that would be Craig Green for the uninitiated, staged his latest show in Paris on Sunday, and it was, in a word, sensational. Craig Green spring/summer 2026 collection in Paris – Launchmetrics Riffing through materials, epochs, cultural references and diverse artistic moods to create the most original menswear of…

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