Topshop is back to woo Gen Z
The grand opening of Ikea's shiny flagship store at Oxford Circus last week might have set some pulses racing but the generation of women who remember its previous incarnation are far more interested in the relaunch of Topshop this summer.
Not for us the thrill of a new Billy bookcase or blue placcy Frakta bag — we used to come here for Baxter jeans and feathery Freedom earrings, a Hershesons 'wavy gravy' blow-dry or a pair of ballet pumps, selected from a wall the size of a cinema screen covered in every single colour imaginable. You remember — just opposite the vast pick 'n' mix stand of three thongs for a tenner.
During the early Noughties, Topshop Oxford Circus was known to its fans as
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