Fashion
Topshop & Topman return to UK high streets with John Lewis
Shoppers can expect a curated selection of Topshop’s most-loved pieces, including cult denim styles, statement jackets, and trend-led wardrobe staples. Topman will offer a focused edit of modern menswear essentials, from tailored outerwear to everyday basics, designed to elevate any look.
Topshop and Topman will expand their UK retail presence through a February 2026 partnership with John Lewis.
Topshop will feature in 32 stores, while Topman will launch in 6, offering curated womenswear and menswear edits.
Leaders from both brands highlighted the collaboration as a milestone, blending fashion-forward collections with John Lewis’ trusted service and strengthening high-street retail.
“We’re excited to partner with John Lewis, a trusted name in British retail, to bring Topshop and Topman to high streets across the country,” said Michelle Wilson, Managing Director at Topshop. “This partnership is a key step in our mission to bring the best of fashion to everyone, engaging with shoppers in real life and delivering the style and quality they expect from our brands.”
Peter Ruis, Managing Director of John Lewis, commented: “Bringing Topshop and Topman back to high streets across the UK is a landmark moment, and we are thrilled to be their only nationwide store partner. It’s the ultimate proof of our strategy: offering the most-loved brands alongside the unwavering trust of our brand promise. I grew up with these incredible brands. They have defined our high streets, bringing edge and accessibility with an iconic British lens.”
The launch will introduce a fresh in-store experience that blends Topshop and Topman’s fashion-forward identity with the quality and service customers experience at John Lewis.
Note: The headline, insights, and image of this press release may have been refined by the Fibre2Fashion staff; the rest of the content remains unchanged.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RM)
Fashion
US secures reciprocal trade pacts with Malaysia, Cambodia
“These landmark deals demonstrate that America can maintain tariffs to shrink the goods trade deficit, while opening new markets for American farmers, ranchers, workers and manufacturers,” said Greer in a statement released by the USTR.
President Donald Trump has secured agreements on reciprocal trade with Malaysia and Cambodia and reached frameworks for such pacts with Thailand and Vietnam, USTR Jamieson Greer recently announced.
Malaysia has committed to providing significant preferential market access for US industrial goods and agricultural exports, while Cambodia has committed to eliminate tariffs on 100 per cent of such goods.
Malaysia has committed to providing significant preferential market access for US industrial goods and agricultural exports, and addressing non-tariff barriers that affect bilateral trade in priority industrial areas.
Malaysia has committed to raising enforcement against notorious markets for counterfeiting and piracy; protecting internationally-recognised labour rights; and preventing forced labour. It has also committed to refraining from banning, or imposing quotas on, exports to the United States of critical minerals or rare earth elements, a joint statement released by the White House said.
Cambodia has committed to eliminate tariffs on 100 per cent of US industrial goods and food and agricultural products and has already implemented the commitment. The agreement includes commitments on digital trade, services, investment, intellectual property, customs and trade facilitation, good regulatory practices, and distortionary behaviors of state-owned enterprises.
Thailand will eliminate tariff barriers on nearly 99 per cent of goods, covering a full range of US industrial and food and agricultural products. It will address and prevent barriers to US food and agricultural products in the Thai market, including expediting access for the United States.
Vietnam will provide preferential market access for substantially all US industrial and agricultural exports. Vietnamese firms have signed 20 memoranda of understanding with US companies to purchase agricultural commodities, with a total estimated value of over $2.9 billion.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)
Fashion
UK non-food prices fall again but business rate change may drive inflation and cost jobs says BRC
Published
October 28, 2025
UK shop price inflation fell in the first week of October bringing some relief for hard-pressed consumers, the new BRC-NIQ Shop Price Monitor showed on Tuesday.
But the news came at the same time as a warning that UK retail jobs are at risk from potential tax rises.
First those inflation figures. Overall shop price inflation fell to 1% year on year this month. That’s lower than the 1.4% seen in September and the three-month average of 1.1%.
Specific non-food inflation was actually deflation as it has been for some time. And it accelerated as prices fell more than in September (-0.4% this time rather than -0.1%).
Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said: “Overall shop price inflation slowed in October, driven by fierce competition among retailers and widespread discounting. Discounts came early to electricals and health & beauty, as retailers started promotions ahead of Black Friday month.
“The IMF recently warned that UK inflation will be the highest in the G7. With the Budget less than a month away, the Chancellor has an opportunity to relieve some of the pressures that are keeping the cost of essentials high.”
And that leads us on to the warning of potential job losses if the forthcoming Autumn Budget hammers retailers.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) and UK Hospitality have raised concerns over plans to make superstores and other large businesses pay higher business rates.
They said hundreds of sites could close, potentially costing 120,000 jobs.
The changes are designed to give the government room to reduce the burden on smaller businesses and it has said they’ll mean a boost for city centres.
But owners of larger businesses have said it may do the opposite as some major ‘anchor’ sites — particularly large supermarkets and department stores — may close.
Helen Dickinson said ministers should agree to an exemption from higher business rates for retailers to “safeguard hundreds of anchor stores and the vital jobs they sustain”.
She explained that the proposed changes would also added to inflation: “Labour’s promised business rates reform must deliver a meaningful cut to retailers’ rates bills, and ensure that no store pays more. Rising employer National Insurance Contributions and a new packaging tax have directly contributed towards rising inflation, according to the Bank of England. Adding further taxes on retail businesses would inevitably keep inflation higher for longer.”
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Weak north India cotton yarn market awaits winter demand rebound
In Ludhiana, cotton yarn prices fell by ****;* per kg as stockists and mills tried to attract buyers. A trader from the Ludhiana market told Fibre*Fashion, “Cotton yarn demand has not improved yet. However, cheaper cotton has allowed spinning mills to reduce yarn prices. The arrival of new cotton is expected to keep prices in check in the coming months, with arrivals rising in various states.”
In Ludhiana, ** count cotton combed yarn was sold at ****;***–*** (~$*.**–*.**) per kg (inclusive of GST); ** and ** count combed yarn were traded at ****;***–*** (~$*.**–*.**) per kg and ****;***–*** (~$*.**–*.**) per kg, respectively; and carded yarn of ** count was noted at ****;***–*** (~$*.**–*.**) per kg today, according to trade sources.
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