It sits on your phone like an app and has never once asked for an update.
iPhone
Actor Disha Patani has entered the fashion business with DZ, a casual streetwear label built on oversized silhouettes, relaxed fits, graphic elements and space inspired designs. The looks echo the roomy styles she often wears in public and off duty, Apparel Resources reports.
Read more at apparelresources.com →
Founded in June 2020 by Abhijeet and Vanshika Kaji, Knya grew from an unbranded hospital consumables supplier into a lifestyle brand selling scrubs, clogs, footwear and stethoscopes. Audited revenue reached ₹110 crore in FY26, recurring revenue tops ₹250 crore and it expects ₹200 crore revenue in FY27.
Read more at Ascendants →
Noel Tata will step down as chairman and director of Trent on 11 November after joining the company in 1997, and will become chairman emeritus. Bahram Vakil takes over from 12 November, in line with Tata Group governance guidelines, as Trent plans more Zudio and Westside stores.
Read more at The Economic Times →
Tata Group retailer Trent reported Q2 FY27 revenue of Rs 5,788 crore, up 22.5 per cent, with net profit up 8.6 per cent to Rs 490 crore. Value brand Zudio opened its 1,000th store, and Trent ran 1,342 stores across its formats at the end of September.
Read more at apparelresources.com →
Casio India has opened its first G-Shock exclusive store in Indore, at the Phoenix Pride of India mall, as part of its ongoing retail expansion. The store is designed around the watch brand's rugged identity and carries limited edition models alongside Casio's other lines.
Read more at infashionbusiness.com →Baggy jeans have become a staple for shoppers who want comfort with a streetwear edge, Indian Retailer says, pairing easily with oversized T shirts, hoodies, crop tops and sneakers. Its roundup covers established denim labels and trend led brands selling relaxed fits in India.
Read more at Indian Retailer →Designer Nachiket Barve tells Deccan Chronicle that India has spent decades making embroidery, leatherwork and other crafts for international luxury houses while waiting for the West to value those skills first. He calls it a colonial hangover and argues the future lies in sustainable Indian design.
Read more at deccanchronicle.com →Karisma Kapoor attended the 25th Elle Style Awards in Mumbai on 27 October, wearing a gold ensemble, The CSR Journal reports. Earlier that day the 52 year old actor was spotted at a store launch with filmmaker Karan Johar.
Read more at thecsrjournal.in →
Opening Mexico Fashion Week, Carla Fernández built her Spring 2027 collection around the Manila Galleon trade route that linked Acapulco with Asia for more than 250 years. Dancers in loose garments dyed with natural pigments performed around chairs, exploring how cultures meet and influence each other.
Read more at vogue.com →
For Spring 2027, Los Angeles designer John Elliott looked to fabric development in Japan, where his co founder is based. Vogue notes pigment coated ripstop cargo shorts, a light funnel neck coat in faded tiger camouflage and a charcoal dyed cotton shirt jacket with patinated seams.
Read more at vogue.com →
adidas Originals and Wales Bonner have reunited for Fall Winter 2026, digging into the designer's archive to reinterpret Three Stripes silhouettes. Hypebae looks at the four new pairs, which continue the partnership's mix of athletic heritage and luxury.
Read more at hypebae.com →
ELLE argues that after fashion month there is no defining trouser shape. Designers showed everything from low slung and slouchy to cigarette slim, cropped or pooling over shoes, while revivals of skinny and bootcut jeans circulate. The writer finds the lack of a rule rather fun.
Read more at elle.com →
Calvin Klein's new season leather, including tailored jackets and staple trousers, has landed at Zalando alongside classic basics. Hypebeast says the pieces carry the brand's clean, 90s influenced minimalism into leather for the season.
Read more at hypebeast.com →Former Dior and Carven creative director Serge Ruffieux has joined Inditex on a freelance basis as design director for John Galliano's team at Zara, coinciding with Galliano's first Zara collection. He is expected to oversee design and product development for upcoming collections.
Read more at fashionunited.com →A full breakdown of Adidas' record third quarter shows apparel revenue rose 19 per cent on a currency neutral basis while footwear sales stayed flat, TheIndustry.fashion reports. The company also saw a decline in Europe, following last week's raised profit outlook.
Read more at theindustry.fashion →Crocs shares rose 25.4 per cent to $150.15 in mid afternoon trading after a strong third quarter report, WWD says. The company raised its full year 2026 revenue guidance for the third straight time, now expecting growth of about 3 per cent.
Read more at wwd.com →The British Fashion Council says Yohji Yamamoto will receive the Outstanding Achievement Award at The Fashion Awards 2026, recognising his influence on contemporary design. The ceremony takes place on 30 November at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Read more at designscene.net →Hugo Boss says it will rejoin the Pakistan Accord from January 2027, reversing its earlier decision not to renew. The legally binding agreement between brands, retailers and unions grew out of the international accord on garment factory health and safety created after the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse.
Read more at wwd.com →Weekday has opened a 1,000 square metre flagship on Drottninggatan in Stockholm, bringing together Weekday, Monki, Cheap Monday and curated second hand fashion across two floors. Fibre2Fashion says the store will offer exclusive drops and diverse styles.
Read more at Fibre2Fashion →
Surat based retailer Ivana Jewels, which has 17 showrooms in 15 cities, says brides this wedding season are buying fewer jewellery pieces with much larger stones. Demand for 2 carat lab grown solitaires has moved from aspiration to a mainstream choice, it reports.
Read more at lokmattimes.com →
Bengaluru founded ONYA, started by Himani Yadav and Gaurav Choudhary, reports 100 per cent year on year revenue growth. In about 20 months it has opened eight flagship stores in Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, offering more than 4,000 designs in hallmarked gold.
Read more at dailypioneer.com →
Lucknow based Aisshpra Gems and Jewels, with roots going back to 1940, opened four showrooms in a single day in Bahraich, Bettiah, Lucknow and Mirzapur. That takes its network from 16 to 20 stores, and it aims for 30 by March 2028.
Read more at ANI News →
Tanishq is installing Diamond Expertise Centres in its UAE stores with a Caratmeter that tells customers instantly whether a stone is natural or lab grown. The centres, launched in India with De Beers last year, are in 74 stores and will soon reach 100.
Read more at thejewelrywire.substack.com →
Forbes Africa visits Yair Shimansky's flagship store at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, where he hand picks stones at source and sells a ring to American buyers for R980,000, about $61,000. The piece asks how South Africa's diamond industry can recover lost ground.
Read more at forbesafrica.com →National Jeweler's Amanda's Style File gathers 13 spooky pieces for Halloween, from a yellow gold and enamel ghost charm to web designs. The roundup argues such jewels can be fun, made of precious materials and worn all year.
Read more at nationaljeweler.com →In an interview with The Federal, economist Prabhakar explains why gold prices have swung sharply in 2026, pointing to factors such as a stronger US dollar. He favours gold ETFs over jewellery for investors and expects prices to rise in coming years.
Read more at The Federal →The Economic Times explains how festive season buyers can check that gold jewellery matches the purity they pay for. Checking the hallmark is the most common method, and the article lists other simple checks buyers can use before spending a large sum.
Read more at The Economic Times →
Berlin eyewear brand Mykita has opened a 2,370 square foot store on Brighton Way in Beverly Hills, replacing its downtown Los Angeles shop. The new concept adds a space for eye examinations, consultation areas and an on site workshop, WWD reports.
Read more at sg.finance.yahoo.com →
New Balance continues the retro running trend with the 740, a £100 everyday trainer in black with Nordic Green that mixes nostalgic sportswear details with street style, Verge Magazine reports. It is pitched as an easy way to refresh a wardrobe this season.
Read more at vergemagazine.co.uk →
Lens maker IOT says its Light-Form process forms a complete personalised progressive lens in seconds with a single flash of light, without layering or polishing. It claims the method uses no manufacturing water, cuts energy use by 90 per cent and waste by 76 per cent.
Read more at Yahoo Finance →
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry welcomed the Textiles Ministry's decision to reopen the PLI scheme portal for Round 4 applications from 1 November to 31 December. A lower turnover threshold and longer horizon should widen participation in MMF apparel, fabrics and technical textiles.
Read more at Fibre2Fashion →
The Supreme Court dismissed a revenue appeal against Premium Suiting, which bleached and dyed man made fabrics for powerloom makers on job work. It held that the processing is not manufacture under the Textiles Committee Act, so the statutory cess exemption still applies.
Read more at rawlaw.in →-1793277479057.webp)
The Textiles Ministry and AEPC ran a TEXPORT capacity building programme in Noida, after a first session in Surat, to help new and existing exporters grow abroad. Joint Secretary Alaknanda Dayal said India aims for $100 billion in textile and garment exports by 2030.
Read more at The Daily Jagran →
An Indiana Daily Student columnist describes trying on a cheap rubber mask at Spirit Halloween and argues the seasonal, high volume costume model mirrors fast fashion. She notes the costume chain's shoppers are mostly last minute buyers, which makes the waste worse.
Read more at idsnews.com →
Allie Reed's Reed Resale in downtown Abilene, Texas, mixes consignment with an online boutique. Clients bring in women's clothing to sell, and the store photographs and posts the pieces online, giving clothes that no longer suit one person a new owner.
Read more at ktxs.com →
In the weeks before 31 October, Syracuse University design students fill the seventh floor of the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, pinning, sewing and cutting fabric to make their own Halloween outfits, The Daily Orange reports, choosing handmade work over fast fashion costumes.
Read more at dailyorange.com →
Meta's new Style Sketch app builds a virtual closet from photos posted on Instagram or items users snap, record or upload, then suggests outfit combinations from clothes they already own, TechCrunch reports. The launch came without a big announcement.
Read more at TechCrunch →
In a Unite.AI opinion piece, a beauty retail leader argues consumers are not looking for artificial intelligence but for the right foundation shade, serum or hair product. Brands should use technology to remove the uncertainty that makes shopping hard, rather than selling AI itself.
Read more at unite.ai →
Photographer Sasha Jairam tells The Hollywood Reporter India that clients now bring AI generated images and ask her to make them look natural, so her job involves managing expectations. The piece also cites a Pakistani label that used AI generated images of Alia Bhatt.
Read more at hollywoodreporterindia.com →
A systematic review in Fashion and Textiles analysed 163 publications from Web of Science, EBSCO, IEEE Xplore and Scopus to chart AI generated content in fashion. It finds research has grown explosively since 2022, with the technology shifting from adversarial networks to diffusion and large language models.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →
Writing in Retail Gazette, Pinterest's international vice president Greg Owens argues the idea that online shopping would replace physical stores was wrong. With high streets in decline, he says the internet used the right way can be their salvation.
Read more at retailgazette.co.uk →With 60,000 runners and 2 million spectators expected on 1 November, running and non running apparel brands are hosting pop ups, shake out runs, carb loading dinners and cool down parties around the New York City Marathon to tap a major cultural moment, Glossy reports.
Read more at glossy.co →Hair care brand Oribe deliberately chooses brilliant but less well known artists to design its annual holiday gift set, Glossy reports. Unlike most collaborations that lean on a famous partner's audience, Oribe uses the series for brand building and sales.
Read more at glossy.co →Swedish online fashion and beauty retailer Nelly Group grew net revenue 10.3 per cent to SEK 313 million in the third quarter, helped by promotions and end of season sales. Higher operating costs pushed operating profit down slightly to SEK 42.4 million.
Read more at Fibre2Fashion →India leased 5.8 million sq ft of retail space in the first nine months of 2026, up 19 per cent, according to CBRE Research. Fashion and apparel retailers took 39 per cent of demand, and Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Hyderabad made up about 67 per cent of leasing.
Read more at retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com →
Marks and Spencer has posted more than 70 vacancies on its careers site for a new automated fashion distribution centre in Lichfield, opening next year, including management, operational and specialist roles. The 437,000 sq ft warehouse will eventually employ 600 people.
Read more at retailtechinnovationhub.com →Fashion, jewellery, textiles and retail roles in India first, then global and remote, checked today. Every listing links to the original posting. Bring your own tape measure.