The high street fashion retailers H&M have launched a huge sale and are offering final reductions of up to 70% off whilst stocks last.

For those seeking a fashion bargain, this is a great chance to grab some must have essentials for less while we're still in the midst of summer.

There are a wide range of last minute seasonal purchases for key summer staples, such as swimwear from as little as £3 and summer tops for less.

The retailer has launched a sale across the full range of their departments, with other top offers including half price deals on designer trousers, 50% off female formal dresses and up to 60% off menswear as well as gym and sportswear.

As well as a variety of fashion products and departments, the H&M sale also includes their homeware range and accessories. However, the massive online savings are only available until stocks last so you'll have to be quick if you want to enjoy these discounts.

Free delivery details:

Online customers can currently enjoy free UK delivery on all orders at H&M if placed before August 9, 2015 as part of the sale.

You'll need to use the discount code 3057 when you reach the checkout to claim your free UK home delivery on your purchases.

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In keeping with the fashion theme, we've also spotted a variety of sales at a range of other fashion retailers, including Dorothy Perkins, below.

House of Fraser clearance event

If you're looking to update your wardrobe this summer, there's also huge savings to be made at House of Fraser.

The high street retailer's big summer sale includes up to 70% off women's, men's and kid's fashion when you shop online. View the full range here.

Dorothy Perkins

Popular fashion retailer Dorothy Perkins has launched an online sale across all of items products and department while stocks last.

Consumers can enjoy 20% off everything, including menswear, women's fashion, kids clothing, jewellery and accessories and more.

You can view the full range of Dorothy Perkins sale items, including holiday essentials and delivery information, here.

Fashion and footwear, Amazon

The online marketplace Amazon has launched a range of sales across its fashion and footwear ranges, now up to 70% off across all departments.

The retailer is offering a range of deals, including up to 60% off kids clothes and shoes and enjoy half prices off a range of outdoor clothing.

Chucks never die.

Chucks can add suede. (Big mistake.) Their iconic star can be moved and the new design called Cons. (What?) Chucks can stray from the traditional whites and blacks to embrace every color in the rainbow. (Why?)

Chucks were cool because everyone wore them, then cool because no one did. Chucks were an essential fashion accessory for sixth-graders at Bethesda (Maryland) Elementary in 1969. They were an essential fashion accessory 20 years later, for disaffected rockers whose songs rhymed "mosquito" with "libido." Oh, no. They're an essential fashion accessory now, universally. My 29-year-old son, the Erstwhile Kid Down The Hall, owns a pair of gray and white highs. I'm getting new low whites, what Converse used to call "oxfords."

Chucks are like taxes and cockroaches: The world will end. They will not.

Last week, Converse announced that Chucks are getting a makeover, for the first time since Chuck Taylor created them in 1917. Chucks might be cool. They're also as comfortable as back spasms.

It's hard to believe that 90 percent of NBA players in the 1960s wore Chucks. Running and jumping in those bad boys had to be like playing Home Run Derby with a medicine ball. Can you imagine what Oscar Robertson could have done in a decent pair of sneakers?

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Podiatrists must have loved Chucks.

The New Chucks are softer in the "footbed," according to the company. An "ultra-suede lining" makes them feel less like concrete. Chucks will look the same, though. This isn't some New-Coke ocean liner waiting for an iceberg. As we used to say back in the day, "Don't (mess) with my Chucks."

Chucks are as enduring as the Hershey bar and the '65 Mustang. Wilt Chamberlain went for 100 one night in 1962 wearing white high-tops. Dennis The Menace styled in black lows. My sixth-grade girlfriend donned a dress and white high-tops for the class picture. She was always the first girl picked in the kickball games. I loved her madly.

Chucks are in the Smithsonian and possibly your basement or attic, undisturbed for decades. It has not been scientifically proven that Genghis Khan, while pillaging central Asia in the 13th century, did not pack a couple pairs of black highs for the trip. Do we really know that George Washington did not wear them while crossing the Delaware?

I wore black Chucks as a cool kid, low and high top. I wore white Chucks, ditto. I wore Chucks to school dances and to church. I cut the grass in them, then threw them in the washer. Chucks were rubber, and they were canvas. Indestructible.

"The rise of sneaker culture" wasn't being documented back then, but it did exist. Chucks were king. If you wore Keds or, man, PF Flyers, you were a subspecies. You were the kid who was still playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey at his 14th birthday party. You were the kid who still had birthday parties.

By the early '70s, some of the rich kids started wearing Adidas (white lows, black or green vertical stripes) or Puma. Nike hadn't been born. I stuck with Chucks, even as their popularity faded. Maybe because their popularity faded.

I owned my last pair about 20 years ago. Still loved 'em the way I loved Twister and whitewall tires. But they killed my feet. I switched briefly to Nike, aka Evil Sneaker Empire, then to Anyone But Nike.

That might explain why Chucks nearly died in the early 2000s, before Nike bought the company. There weren't enough anti-establishment renegades to support the brand. Sales are good these days, though, up 20 percent in the last year. Chucks are the best sellers in the Converse line.

Does that surprise anyone? We all have fashion issues, statements we regret and/or chalk up to rash behavior or maybe too much alcohol. I, for one, was way too long a proponent of flowery Hawaiian shirts. Chucks never looked foolish like flowery Hawaiian shirts. They'll never die.

The "Chuck Taylor II'' arrives on Tuesday. It comes in black, red, white and blue. Low-cuts cost $70, the highs $75. I'm going to get a pair of white lows, so my feet will remember how good it was to be a kid.

If they're comfortable, I might even wear 'em to a wedding or two.

Cross channel shopping trips from Plymouth to Roscoff and Dover to Calais are gaining popularity thanks to huge savings not seen for more than 20 years.

The value of the Euro is at an all-time low making the pound worth more than €1.40.

According to the Mail on Sunday that means one car load of alcohol can now be bought in France for £142 less than the £368 it would cost in the UK.

The newspaper says you can now save £6.75 on a litre of Famous Grouse Scotch whisky, £7.21 on a bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin and £79.96 on six bottles of Moet & Chandon champagne.

Cross channel shopping trips from Plymouth to Roscoff and Dover to Calais are gaining popularity thanks to huge savings not seen for more than 20 years.

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The value of the Euro is at an all-time low making the pound worth more than €1.40.

According to the Mail on Sunday that means one car load of alcohol can now be bought in France for £142 less than the £368 it would cost in the UK.

The newspaper says you can now save £6.75 on a litre of Famous Grouse Scotch whisky, £7.21 on a bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin and £79.96 on six bottles of Moet & Chandon champagne.

"The whole thing came about with me telling Usher['s team] no," fashion designer Kerby Jean-Raymond told Mic in a phone interview. "But you can't really tell him no — he's really persistent, and he gets everyone to call you until you give in."

So on Independence Day, Usher took the stage at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, in front of thousands of people, wearing a t-shirt that crossed out the words "July Fourth" and instead read "Juneteenth," a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

The singer's shirt whipped up headlines and social media frenzy from followers of sites like Essence and The Fashion Bomb, as did a matching custom-designed leather jacket that read "Have we truly achieved our independence?" Both were designed by Jean-Raymond, founder of the New York-based menswear brand Pyer Moss.

The excitement around the politically charged clothes demonstrates how hungry shoppers are for these kinds of messages — but also the double bind that many black fashion designers find themselves in.

Eagerness for clothes that get political: Usher's bold-faced shirt wasn't Jean-Raymond's first time combining politics and clothing. In 2014, the Haitian-American designed a custom "They Have Names" shirt featuring the names of 11 unarmed black men killed by police officers in the years preceding. Stylist Shiona Turini borrowed the shirt, which Jean-Raymond had initially just made for himself, and wore it to New York Fashion Week, instantly spiking demand online.

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"After that, my girlfriend strongly encouraged me to sell the shirt for charity," Jean-Raymond told Mic. So he partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union to sell a limited-edition run of the design, plus a new shirt featuring the names of 11 women of color killed by police. When the garments went live online, according to Jean-Raymond, the site crashed multiple times.

The limitations of being a "black designer": But afterward, Jean-Raymond pulled back from those sorts of statements. "You're not just a designer at that point, you become a 'black designer'; it becomes all about your race and less about your work, so I kind of wanted to stay away from it," he said.

Race has long played a part in the East Flatbush-bred designer's career. For the first year after founding Pyer Moss, he said, he purposefully designed anonymously, a tactic that was so successful that when Miss Jay of America's Next Top Model walked into one of the brand's presentations, he was surprised that Jean-Raymond was black. 

"That's the reaction I wanted," said Jean-Raymond, who has also designed for high-end lines such as Marchesa. "I didn't want people to put me in an urban category or call my stuff streetwear just because of my race or my age. I didn't want to be put in a category I could never get out of."

Black designer-led brands still a rarity: Being pigeonholed is all the more likely when there are so few visible black designers at all. Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that only about 2.7% of designers at New York Fashion Week were African-American.

That tiny number isn't due to lack of interest. As a student of the High School of Fashion Industries in Manhattan, where Jean-Raymond enrolled at 14, the minority ratio was vastly different than what's represented in the industry. "It was probably like 30% black, 30% Latino, 30% Asian and 10% white," he said. "But a majority of the kids who went to school with me, they didn't stick with fashion."

Jean-Raymond said that's likely due to the financial barrier of entry into the business. Factory minimums and the need for investments can be insurmountable to minorities who don't come from means.

Then there is the uphill battle once within the industry. Of the small group of black designers today, the youngest are typically categorized as "urban" or "streetwear" designers, including brands like Hood by Air by Shayne Oliver and Public School by Maxwell Osborne and his business partner Dao-Yi Chow, as well as Off-White by Kanye West collaborator Virgil Abloh.

When asked whether what he does is streetwear, Oliver once told Fashionista, "I don't get what that means really. Like, what does 'street' mean? What people wear on the subway? What is that? I think it's a categorization that's just lazy."

The Pyer Moss designer backstage at his February 2015 runway show.Source: Getty Images

Striking the balance of fashion and politics: For now, Jean-Raymond is embracing the political side of things. "There's no amount of dinners or partying that I can do that is going to make everybody in the fashion industry like and accept me," he said. "But what I have at the moment is everyone's attention, so while I have that, whether they like me or not, I'm going to make them think."

But he wields that attention carefully, knowing the box he and his business can be put in. The designer employs about 15 people between his design studio and his factory, many of whom are not black. "Many of them don't understand the social plight of the black American, and it would be unfair of me to jeopardize their jobs or longevity of the company because of my personal beliefs," he said. He does plan on designing more "provocative pieces" as one-offs, but they probably won't crop up in his runway shows, including the one this week at the inaugural New York Fashion Week: Men's.

"This is just the game that I have to play right now while the company is growing," Jean-Raymond said. "When we reach the point where the company is self-sustaining and people take the fashion seriously — because that's what we're doing at the end of the day, selling clothes, not politics — I won't have to limit myself in order to play into fashion and politics anymore."

Then he'll be free to design Juneteenth shirts for Usher, as well as high-end collections for the world's best runways — all without being limited by the "black designer" label.

The comic dispute of the trouser-suited women office workers at Yorkshire Television, which looked like becoming serio-comic if the management refused to budge, ended yesterday with a girl leaping into the air and shouting: “We’ve won.”

From now on, the girls in administration, the sober-sided side of YTV studios at Leeds, will be allowed to wear trouser suits, which the management had earlier banned. Of course, the agreement reached between YTV and the National Association of Theatrical, Television and Kine Employees, did not put it quite as baldly as that. There were faces to be saved.

So, when Mr William Bovey, a divisional organiser for NATTKE, announced the “amicable agreement,” he emphasised that the company has been anxious that high standards of dress should be maintained, and that things should not get out of hand. And the union was happy because its women members would continue to wear sensible clothing. Freedom, Mr Bovey declared, had been maintained.

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It took the management and the union more than seven hours of joint and separate meetings to achieve a declaration of each other’s positions that might more usefully have been achieved in minutes, particularly when office workers at other television studios are allowed to wear trousers.

“Formal trouser suits,” but no slacks, will now be allowed in YTV administration. Perhaps it did not need a cynic to add yesterday that, women being women, trouser suits would now go out of fashion in the YTV offices.