Zara Fans Queue Outside Re-Opened Stores In Paris Following Lifting Of Lockdown

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a colossal effect on almost every industry, whether that be unprecedented pressure on health services, non-essential businesses shuttering, or supermarkets needing to consider their re-stocking tactics and opening hours. And so it follows that the fashion industry has also been experiencing the effects of a global health crisis.

Though it has been dismissed as frivolous - if compared directly with the front line service industries fighting to keep people alive and fed - the fashion industry is both a creative mecca and one of the world's most significant fiscal heavyweights. The fashion industry's deterioration would see a serious impact on the global economy, not to mention the furloughing or unemployment status of millions of artists, designers, seamstresses and more.

The virus has moved at different rates through, and had varying impact on, different countries, but the latest lockdown measures in the UK still encourage those who can work from home to do so, but those who cannot are 'actively encouraged to go back to work (alongside relaxed rules around exercise and outside leisure time).

Despite some lockdown relaxing (or even being lifted in places like France) the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, and the fashion industry's fate still hangs in the balance.

From the potential for a humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh, to billions of pounds donated by luxury fashion groups, here are all the ways the fashion industry is adapting under the strain of the coronavirus.