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.

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.

Sports performance eyewear brand Oakley announced on Thursday a new, multi-year partnership with French footballer and Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappé. 

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. 

Specsavers profit more than doubled in the year to the end of February 2021 as it cut costs during the pandemic while sales fell only 6.6% to £2.73 billion. Sales had risen 5.8% in the previous year before Covid hit.

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

New York City eyewear company Moscot announced on Thursday that it is expanding its presence in Europe with the opening of a new flagship location in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

David Beckham is reportedly selling a 55% stake in his management business to acquisition-hungry Authentic Brands Group (ABG) for as much as £200 million. The reports haven't been confirmed by either party.

The cancellations concern five shows scheduled in Frankfurt, Germany: Premium, Neonyt, Seek, The Ground and new event Val:ue. The organisers are trying to stage an alternative programme.

The multi-service agency has bolstered its senior staff by naming Jessica Juliano as head of omni-channel operations, Giovanni Pungetti as head of Asia and Giovanni de Marchi, ex Slam Jam, as head of brand partnerships.

​UK eyewear specialist Inspecs is continuing its acquisitions strategy with the firm on Thursday saying it has bought Sweden-based Ego Eyewear Limited.

​Tom Davies, the British eyewear designer known his creations used in numerous movies, is now selling his brands, plus limited editions and those movie glasses on his first webstore, iwearbritain.com.

​Zilli has been has been bought by investment firm Negma Group and Italian restructuring and acquisitions expert FAI, with the approval of the Chairman of the Commercial Court of Lyon. 

​Eyewear giant Safilo has unveiled a new tech move with the launch of first-to-market custom-crafted 3D printed snow goggles “built to the unique details of the face”.