MANILA, Philippines - There’s a new landmark in New York City and it’s UK’s number one fashion house, Topshop/Topman, which finally and rightfully finds a home in the city that never sleeps.
Topshop’s first store in the US was among the most anticipated retail openings in years. And it staged a barrage of parties to announce its debut. Sir Philip Greene, owner of Arcadia Group (the parent company of Topshop and Topman), led the opening with Lady Green and fashion icon Kate Moss with other popular celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Hudson, Emma Roberts, Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen and Penn Badgley.
Just like its British counterpart in Oxford Circus, London, Topshop’s 40,000 square-foot, four-level store on Broadway & Broome is filled with up-to-the-minute collections from the UK’s leading designers. The windows were designed and conceptualized by celebrated British illustrator Jo Ratcliffe, whose work has been included in British Vogue, The Guardian and GQ, to name a few.
The main floor houses Topshop’s Kate Moss Collection featuring sequined, sexy styles and long chiffon dresses, jersey tops and statement jackets.
Continuing Topshop’s ongoing support of innovative British designers, capsule collections by Preen, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll are also available for the store’s New York-based customers, together with Topshop Unique, the store’s now famous design-led collection shown at London Fashion Week. Topshop NY also carries the collection by Barbara Hulanicki and her take on modern, feminine pieces inspired by Hulanicki’s 1960s BIBA heritage.
The lower ground floor is home to Topman. With six trends a season, the fast fashion turnaround offers customers an ever changing choice of design led pieces for their wardrobe. They can take their pick from the cult men’s label Topman Design regularly featured in London Fashion Week; Lens, men’s outfits by London’s young designers Carolyn Massey, Dexter Wong, Mjolk, Kasper-Harup-Hansen and James Long; Antony Price’s collection for Topman called Priceless.
From the United Kingdom to the United States, Topshop and Topman’s urbane, high-street designs have completed its trans-Atlantic journey, making it the newest retail phenomenon to hit New Yorkers.
In the Philippines, Topshop stores are located at Robinsons Galleria, Robinsons Place Midtown, The Podium, Shangri-la Plaza Mall, Power Plant Mall, SM Mall of Asia, Greenbelt 3, Bonifacio High Street, Alabang Town Center, TriNoma, Ayala Center Cebu and Topman at Robinsons Galleria, Robinsons Place Midtown , The Podium, Power Plant Mall, SM Mall of Asia, TriNoma.