Uniqlo is coming to Canada, Selfridges is launching a gender neutral shopping experience, the winner of the 2015 H&M Design Award has been announced, and more style news from the fashion trenches this week.

• Good news for Canadian Uniqlo fans. The Japanese retailer is opening its first two stores in Toronto in 2016.
• A new London exhibition, “The Alice Look“, will focus on how Alice in Wonderland’s style has influenced fashion. 
• Simon Lee has won the 2015 H&M Design Award with a collection inspired by a documentary about homeless children in Moscow.
• Selfridges is launching a gender neutral shopping experience.
• H&M continues its worldwide expansion with the opening of 400 more stores in 2015. 
• All 19 Kate Spade Saturday stores and the brand’s 12 Jack Spade stores will close gradually over the first half of 2015.
• Tommy Hilfiger is working on his memoir, which will be published this Fall.
• Rachel Zoe is teaming up with A Pea in the Pod for her first maternity collection.

Fun Fashion Fact

Did you know that the bra clasp was invented by author Mark Twain. The patent for “improvement in adjustable and detachable straps for garments” was granted in 1871, and “called for an elastic band with small hook-and-eye closures to create adjustable widths.”