Mini Mode – Global Kids Fashion Week is to stage virtual runway shows for the first time during London Fashion Week this month.

​The BFC has unveiled buy-now-pay-later giant Clearpay as its new Principal Partner for London Fashion Week in a two-year deal that also sees it underwriting all of the BFC talent support initiatives for 2021/22.

The partnership with FutureLearn will include five courses designed by Tommy Hilfiger and focused on sustainability, LGBTQIA+ allyship, body confidence and community building, each hosted by a famous activist. 

The British Fashion Council has signed TikTok as Principal Partner of its returning talent identification scheme NewGen. At the same time, BNPL payment firm Clearpay will also become the event’s Official Partner.

Trained in Milan, up-and-coming Spanish designer Nicolas Montenegro has dressed Beyonce and Kylie Minogue, but with the pandemic, he's gone back home to his village to launch his own brand.

Milan's women's ready-to-wear fashion week will once again be taking place via a phygital format. The event runs from 23 February to 1 March and will feature 61 shows, including big-name brands and new arrivals. 

Five designers from the Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion collective will kick off the show programme for the next Milan Fashion Week Women, set to start on Feb. 23 and chiefly staged in digital format.

The Zalando Sustainability Award 2021 has been awarded to brand House of Dagmar, in recognition for its sustainable approaches undertaken at numerous levels of its design and manufacturing chain. 

The competition for emerging designers, whose patron this year is Balenciaga’s CEO Cédric Charbit, has announced that the total prize money has risen to €500,000, up from the usual €450,000.

Tag Heuer has inked a partnership with automaker Porsche, and launched the link-up by unveiling a new watch, the Tag Heuer Carrera Porsche Chronograph. 

The CFDA has unveiled its calendar for this month’s New York Fashion Week, with a grand total of 84 brands listed, albeit some of them are expected to show as far away as France.

Most of the fashion week's regulars won't be presenting during the four-day event, which runs February 14 through 17 this season, with some brands opting to show off calendar, while others have yet to announce plans. 

The house of Versace plans to skip the next Milan Fashion Week, and instead will unveil its next collection, and new pattern, solely online on March 5, during the runway season of Paris.

Following the appearance of new cases of Covid-19 in Shanghai, the city's fashion week, which was scheduled to take place at the end of March, has been pushed back to April.

The Milanese label’s looks for next winter are sparkling with jewellery, a collection streamed live on the D&G and Farfetch sites on Monday evening, with viewers able to pre-order items on the British luxury e-store.