Pioneering Italian fashion designer Nino Cerruti, who introduced "casual chic" into men's fashion and in his heyday dressed Hollywood stars, has died at the age of 91.

Right when you were thinking one could drown in all the laudable sustainable menswear on display in Milan, along comes Dolce & Gabbana to wake the whole city up with some moda alla Machine Gun Kelly on Saturday. 

The brothers Caten returned to their Canadian roots this season with a DSquared2 collection ideal for Deep North dandies and hipster trappers presented Friday, the opening day of the Milan menswear season.

Burberry has appointed Isabel Moessinger to be its new VP of PR and Events. Moessinger joins Burberry from Christian Dior, where she was completed a seven-year stint at the famed Paris couture house.

The Italian luxury footwear label has named the renowned Greek influencer, founder of the Style Heroine blog, as creative director of its brand image. Smyrniotaki will oversee Sergio Rossi’s new brand identity.

​The Aura Blockchain Consortium has announced the launch of Aura SaaS, which it says is “a game-changing cloud-based SaaS” tech. The consortium was founded by big names, including LVMH, Prada, Cartier, and OTB.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America has released its official New York Fashion Week lineup for February, which sees a host of new and big-name designers set to showcase their latest collections in the Big Apple.

Yoox Net-A-Porter (YNAP) has named Natalie Lee as General Manager for the APAC region. She has extensive experience operating in APAC’s high-growth fashion and e-commerce sector and joins from Vestiaire Collective.

​Sneaker market StockX is planning an IPO and is already working with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs on the project, a report has claimed.

Finally, a proper actual live runway show of re-defined masculine menswear in Pitti, staged late Wednesday inside a Pucci family Palazzo in Florence, courtesy of gender-bender designer Ervin Latimer.

They may be letting unvaccinated tennis players into Australia, but here at Pitti Uomo 101 in Florence, Covid passes are obligatory, each entrant is temperature checked, and everyone wears a PPF8 masks. 

Designer JW Anderson has called off his planned Milan runway show for next weekend and will instead unveil his next menswear collection digitally.

​Selfridges Retail Limited has filed its full accounts for the year to the end of January 2021 and they show the devastation that the pandemic wreaked in what should have been another good year for the company.

​Luxury brands continue to prepare for an intensive focus on Chinese consumers as the Lunar New Year looms. And the latest is Burberry, which on Friday unveiled its dedicated New Year collection and campaign.

Online luxury resale platform The Real Real announced on Thursday that gross merchandise value (GMV) for December recorded a 40 percent uptick on the year prior, and a 49 percent gain on pre-pandemic December 2019. 

​Adidas and Prada are moving their existing collaboration deal a step forward with the first-time addition of clothing and a big focus on sustainability by using the Italian luxury label’s Re-Nylon material.