Someone cover the Paul Frank monkey’s ears, we have terrible news. Just a few weeks after Arcadia’s collapse in November, the 90,000-square-foot Topshop on Oxford Street has closed its doors for good. In fact, real estate agencies Eastdil and Savills have been appointed to try and shift the space.
Obviously, Topshop has a complicated moral history: owner Sir Philip Green has been accused of racism, sexism and sexual abuse in recent years and his stores opted to produce their clothes in places with the lowest wages and least decent workers’ rights.
But we can’t help but feel quite sad about this particular closure. Firstly, because the fall of Arcadia means 13,000 lost jobs. And secondly, because the flagship – right by Oxford Circus station – was something of a cultural landmark in the noughties and twenty-tens. It was a meeting point for friends, a must-visit for teenage tourists and their miserable parents/significant others (God love the row of grumpy boyfriends always sat by its entrance) and the high-street home of those ‘model scouts’ offering photoshoots in those plastic bubbles for ‘just a small fee’.
We assume it’ll soon become a massive vape emporium or one of those perfume shops that’s constantly having a sale because it’s closing down imminently.
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