SYDNEY: Fledging retailer OrotonGroup looks set to rid itself of its multi-brand factory arm Aspect while also seeking to scale down its wholesale operations.

Australian designers taking inspiration from 1960s London might get a run for their money by Lin Bell. The womenswear buff actually lived through it.

Takaaki Sakaguchi is aiming to do to denim what Akira Isogawa did for womenswear - give it the Eastern touch.

PERTH: One of Australia's leading womenswear exporters has struck a prolific deal with a fashion agency in the UK.

NATIONAL: A new report has proven what most have long suspected - textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) workers are among the most poorly paid of all employees in the manufacturing sector.

Organisers of the upcoming Rosemount Australian Fashion Week are already hailing the biannual event as a success.

The brand famous for inventing the world's first Swiss army knife is looking to slice and dice its way into the Australian TCF market.

MELBOURNE: Virginia Feldtman is nostalgic. Following on from an 11-year stint at global fashion giant Calvin Klein, the Melbourne-based designer is now beginning to tread a more traditional fashion path.

National retailer Westco has gone in search of its mojo.

Time-impoverished consumers have been given a new reason to enjoy sleeping on the job.

Norman's leisurely change SYDNEY: Rosebery-headquartered distribution company Sporte Leisure has acquired the Australasian rights to the Greg Norman Collection across Australasia and the Pacific Islands.

For someone who came to Australia six years ago with no professional fashion training, Rosemin Kim's progress is nothing short of phenomenal, as Belinda Smart reports

With not much going on in our lives (evidently) Scottish-extracted husband-to-be, Dog and I like to pride ourselves on the way we treat visitors to our home.

Consumers are becoming increasingly pushy, demanding and impatient. Despite denials from some, a new report has shown increasing numbers of shoppers are losing the plot in retail stores across the country - and it seems it's retail employees who are bearing the brunt. Nina Lees reports.

Time waiteth for no man and time also kicketh him in the bum.

Even if former Canberra staffer Jeff Kennett was spotted among the VIP guest list, David Jones wasn't in the mood to play politics at its Melbourne winter collections launch.