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How the king of the high street Philip Green lost his crown Philip Green once dismissed Asos as a digital upstart - but it went on to buy his Topshop empire for a knock-down price last month 5 March 2021 • 6:00am How a generation of retail heavyweights have lost their empires this year Credit: Rex Boob tubes, cowboy boots, the lemon one-shoulder dress from the first Topshop/Kate Moss collection in 2007… these are not the first items you would look to for an unfolding Greek tragedy. But what is hubris writ large, if it is not Sir Philip Green impatiently batting away my question about what...

Oxford Street can be a fashion destination again – but it needs more than a panoramic hill A five-step plan to make London's most famous shopping street great again The Marble Arch Hill Oxford Street is empty. So empty that it could do with a proverbial dust ball rolling down it just to illustrate how few people are in central London right now. The pandemic has been bad for every high street in the country but arguably none more than this one, which is usually packed with international and domestic tourists but which even during last year’s relatively open summer and autumn remained a sh...