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Fashion Network
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Topshop and Topman comeback hits the headlines with webstore return and landmark runway show
Topshop and Topman have been making headlines for months as the team behind them teased their comeback plan. And at the weekend it all fell into place and was just about the best feelgood news story out there. On Friday, the long awaited standalone website went live, then on Saturday, the two brands took over London's best known landmark – Trafalgar Square – to stage a runway show with Cara Delevingne, Adwoa Aboah, Tolu Coker, and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in attendance. Open to the public, the show featured new, unsigned talent discovered through an open casting call launched earlier this summer in collaboration with Wilhelmina Models London. And there was a live DJ set from Norman Jay and Melvo Baptiste. But the big focus was what was actually in the AW25 See Now, Buy Now collections (as well as a preview of styles set to drop later in the season). For Topshop, the retailer delivered sharp tailoring, outerwear, dresses and denim with key looks including a patchwork shearling coat, strong-shouldered 1980s tailoring, drop-waist jackets, signature patterned knitwear and fluid, voluminous skirts. The palette mixed dark charcoal and deep navy with bold hints of dark red and rich chocolate. Denim was reworked into 'clean modern silhouettes' and new washes, while also spotlighting the brand's popular Jamie and Joni jeans. Topman was all about 'modern utility', blending 'refined' formalwear with 'sharp new silhouettes and impeccably cut pieces that embodied the brand's commitment to elevated quality and contemporary design'. Think check wool coats paired with handknits and pleated, wide-leg tailored trousers, utility trousers, unique prints and embroidered jersey pieces, all grounded in denim in deep indigos, grey, and black. Topshop/Topman MD Michelle Wilson said the show was 'a love letter to London – its energy, creativity, and global influence. The return of is more than a relaunch; it's a reinvention. And this is just the beginning'. As for the new webstore, offers next day and standard delivery options, as well as a super-quick option. The runway show is on there, and the product focus in clearly on trend-led pieces, including Delevingne's new 'Cara Edit '. It looks strong enough to appeal to any Gen Z or Millennial with an eye on trends, as well the Gen X and even Boomers who loved it in its heyday. But the big question remains whether the brand(s) will ever open physical stores. We know that it will return physically via wholesale and that Wilson has rejected the idea of it returning in exactly the same form of that heyday with a big chain of physical shops. Its former flagship is now occupied by Ikea, after all. But if the comeback is a big success, who knows?
Fashion Network
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Topshop and Topman comeback hits the headlines with webstore return and landmark runway show
Topshop and Topman have been making headlines for months as the team behind them teased their comeback plan. And at the weekend it all fell into place and was just about the best feelgood news story out there. On Friday, the long awaited standalone website went live, then on Saturday, the two brands took over London's best known landmark – Trafalgar Square – to stage a runway show with Cara Delevingne, Adwoa Aboah, Tolu Coker, and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in attendance. Open to the public, the show featured new, unsigned talent discovered through an open casting call launched earlier this summer in collaboration with Wilhelmina Models London. And there was a live DJ set from Norman Jay and Melvo Baptiste. But the big focus was what was actually in the AW25 See Now, Buy Now collections (as well as a preview of styles set to drop later in the season). For Topshop, the retailer delivered sharp tailoring, outerwear, dresses and denim with key looks including a patchwork shearling coat, strong-shouldered 1980s tailoring, drop-waist jackets, signature patterned knitwear and fluid, voluminous skirts. The palette mixed dark charcoal and deep navy with bold hints of dark red and rich chocolate. Denim was reworked into 'clean modern silhouettes' and new washes, while also spotlighting the brand's popular Jamie and Joni jeans. Topman was all about 'modern utility', blending 'refined' formalwear with 'sharp new silhouettes and impeccably cut pieces that embodied the brand's commitment to elevated quality and contemporary design'. Think check wool coats paired with handknits and pleated, wide-leg tailored trousers, utility trousers, unique prints and embroidered jersey pieces, all grounded in denim in deep indigos, grey, and black. Topshop/Topman MD Michelle Wilson said the show was 'a love letter to London – its energy, creativity, and global influence. The return of is more than a relaunch; it's a reinvention. And this is just the beginning'. As for the new webstore, offers next day and standard delivery options, as well as a super-quick option. The runway show is on there, and the product focus in clearly on trend-led pieces, including Delevingne's new 'Cara Edit '. It looks strong enough to appeal to any Gen Z or Millennial with an eye on trends, as well the Gen X and even Boomers who loved it in its heyday. But the big question remains whether the brand(s) will ever open physical stores. We know that it will return physically via wholesale and that Wilson has rejected the idea of it returning in exactly the same form of that heyday with a big chain of physical shops. Its former flagship is now occupied by Ikea, after all. But if the comeback is a big success, who knows?
Sky News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Cara Delevingne reveals how Topshop inspired her fashion sense - as brand relaunches in London
Fashion brand Topshop celebrated its relaunch with its first catwalk in seven years. The company's website promised everyone was invited as models strutted down a runway on Trafalgar Square in front of noughties fashion icons Cara Delevingne and Adwoa Aboah and the London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan. The label has been operating on the online fashion platform ASOS after ceasing to operate as a standalone business in 2020. Its previous owner, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group, collapsed into administration and all of Topshop's physical stores - including the Oxford Circus flagship in London's West End - closed soon after. Delevingne told Sky News she was "totally blown away" by the relaunch event. "It was like nostalgia mixed with something eclectic but also something brand new," she said. "For me, it really brings back a time of exploration of my own fashion sense because I think for me at Topshop I got to discover so much." The model, who is working on a capsule collection for next year, has already unveiled a choice edit in this year's show and said her relationship with Topshop precedes her fame. She said: "I would go in and my friends would be like 'you would look good in that' and I would go 'no, that's not really me', and then you'd try it on and be like 'oh maybe I can explore more'. "They really have everything for everyone, and I feel like they brought that back." The runway showcased highlights from its Autumn-Winter 2025 collection, as well as an early preview of pieces set to drop later this season, including showstopper gowns, the classic white tee, and an aloe vera-coloured faux fur coat that surely should not have been on display - to prevent just about everyone rushing to buy it. But sharp tailoring and statement outerwear suggest the brand is ready to reclaim the high street. Must-have denim pieces completed the womenswear line-up while the Topman collection screamed modern utility by blending refined formal wear with sharp new silhouettes. Casual pieces are grounded by authentic denim in deep indigos, which stood out on Trafalgar Square's magnificent stone steps. Topshop's relaunch comes as the high street continues to struggle and as the UK operation of Chinese fashion giant Shein announced pre-tax profits of £38.3m for the year, up some £14m from 2023. 'Top end of the market' Moses Rashid, global marketing director at Topshop/Topman said they are competing in a different space. "We're at the top end of the market. We're about elevation. We pride ourselves on the quality of the product," he said. Those products are being designed in north London, and managing director Michelle Wilson said the aim is to stay that way. "We are a British brand, we want to be a positive force for fashion. We want to bring London to the world. It's fundamental to who we are as a brand, our style is very much London-driven." The majority Danish-owned company has suggested it will slow fashion down by opening physical stores where customers can touch the products, browse collections and try things on, though the flagship on Oxford Circus is unlikely to return because a Swedish fast furniture brand has since occupied the space. Designer Wayne Hemingway has previously collaborated with Topshop and said the relaunch must be more than nostalgia. "They can't rely on their old customers because their old customers have now got kids of their own to spend their money on, and they've got mortgages and all of those things of what being an adult means. "They've got to have designers, marketeers, people who understand - who are on the pulse - who understood, number one, what was a success back then, and also a young generation of people who are there saying, 'this is what our generation needs', and who are bright and can help deliver that. They can't rely on the past."
Daily Mail
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Adwoa Aboah reveals she was secretly pregnant while filming sex scenes in Lena Dunham's new series Too Much - as she poses with co-star Emily Ratajkowski in sexy shoot
Adwoa Aboah has revealed that she was secretly pregnant while filming racy sex scenes in Lena Dunham 's new series Too Much as she posed with her co-star Emily Ratajkowski in a sexy shoot on Monday. The pair both star in the upcoming 10-parter and this week spoke to NET-A-PORTER's digital title, PORTER for their latest cover story about making the project. Too Much follows Jessica (Megan Stalter), who moves from New York to London after a breakup and meets new love interest Felix (Will Sharpe). Model turned actress Adwoa, 33, plays Felix's other love interest Linnea in the series and has described filming some of her first scenes where she was wearing an S&M outfit. She told the publication: 'My first scene where you're introduced to me was this weird sex scene with Will, and Lena directing it. 'Doing that while pregnant was so mad, but it was also great that it was my secret that no one knew. When I tell my child, they're gonna be like, that is so crazy, you know?' She added: 'I just had the absolute best day, and [Lena] lets you play and improvise. Will is just so easy to act off.' She welcomed her first child Shy last year with her partner Daniel Wheatley. For the cover shoot Adwoa and model and actress Emily, 34, both posed together in matching black bodysuits. As Emily spoke in the interview she delved back into her modelling past as she admitted she now feels that fashion is quite 'performative'. She added that she thinks it's shocking that models don't have a union and that often young girls are 'being taken advantage of' in the industry. For her solo shots she showed off her incredible figure in a black bra and briefs set while in another she slipped into a white bodysuit. Emily is set to star in a new Netflix series titled Too Much, which has been created by Girls icon Lena. The series is scheduled to be released on Netflix on July 10th, with the model playing a character named Wendy in the series - the glamorous new girlfriend of main character Jessica's ex. The star was given creative control while filming the new series, which she explained was something she really 'valued.' She recently told ELLE: 'In my twenties, I didn't have a lot of it in my career. Now, I like making things and I like not being an addition to them. She said of the scene: 'Doing that while pregnant was so mad, but it was also great that it was my secret that no one knew. When I tell my child, they're gonna be like, that is so crazy, you know?' 'With Lena, I got to shape the character so much, which was really fun. It gave me a bigger role than just an actor for hire.' Elaborating on her experience on set, she said: 'Lena leans into some of the more 'feminine' ways of directing – over communication, consideration of everyone on set. 'Instead of being this domineering presence, her power lies in grace and in the ability to make everyone feel comfortable.' Last month Lena candidly reflected on her 'last affair' ahead of her semi-autobiographical Netflix series. In a story for British Vogue 's July issue, the writer and producer, 39, admitted to 'wrecking herself on male attention' before finding love with her husband Luis Felber. Lena and Luis, 38, met in January 2021 on a blind date - after being set up by friends - and tied the knot in September 2021. But before meeting her husband and finally getting her 'happy ending,' the actress recalled her 'boy craziness' that led her to 'stop trusting herself.' She explained: 'Even now, I can't be sure. It's not that I don't trust my husband or our life – I do, very much. Too Much follows Jessica (Megan Stalter), who moved from New York to London after a breakup and meets new love interest Felix (Will Sharpe) (both seen in recent trailer) 'It's that at some point along the way, wrecking myself again and again on the rocky shores of male attention, I stopped trusting myself.' Lena previously explained why she cast Megan Stalter instead of herself in her semi-autobiographical series Too Much. 'I was not willing to have another experience like what I'd experienced around [my HBO series Girls] at this point in my life,' the producer-star explained to the New Yorker. 'Physically, I was just not up for having my body dissected again. It was a hard choice, not to cast Meg — because I knew I wanted Meg — but to admit that to myself. I used to think that winning meant you just keep doing it and you don't care what anybody thinks. I forgot that winning is actually just protecting yourself and doing what you need to do to keep making work.' Lena continued: 'I remember looking at Meg and being, like, "You are my muse. You inspire me every single day to go home and tap out pages upon pages." I definitely don't want to be my own muse.'
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
All the celebrity style from Glastonbury 2025: Mia Regan, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Adwoa Aboah
It's that time of year again, when London's great and good vacate the city — and beg, borrow and steal their way to Somerset. Having secured tickets (or at least bought a ticket off someone with a similar shade of hair), the chicest Londoners spent the weekeend peering over each other's shoulders to see who had the best hospitality access: were they staying off-site at The Pig with Barbour (Alexa Chung, Pixie Geldof, Adwoa Aboah), sequestered in PR overlord Fran Cutler's Winnebago A-list zone (Sienna Miller, Oli Green, et al), at Holt Farm — the posh independent campsite next door — or (gasp) the bog-standard general campsite? Wherever they slept, everyone turned out a look. First to Barbour, then, where a crack team including Adwoa Aboah, Lily James, Bilile Piper, Will Poulter Jessie Ware, Ncuti Gatwa and society girls Lady Lola Bute and Jazzy De Lisser all decamped early — and obediently dressed head to toe in the British outerwear label. Inside the festival, it was Mia Regan — model, hiker, and ex-girlfriend of Romeo Beckham — who turned heads in an outfit she's hinted online she might well have designed herself. More on that later. Rina Lipa, Dua's sister, meanwhile opted for a red slip, big black boots and Jimmy Choo's 'Cinch' bag. This year's line-up was as eclectic as ever. Friday saw The 1975 headline the Pyramid Stage, while earlier slots were filled by Biffy Clyro, Alanis Morissette and Lewis Capaldi. Saturday saw Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts close the night, preceded by rising star Raye and a secret act listed only as 'Patchwork' (aka Pulp). Sunday wrapped with Olivia Rodrigo, the youngest woman ever to headline Glasto, with Rod Stewart (joined by Ronnie Wood), Nile Rodgers & Chic, and Noah Kahan. Elsewhere, Charli XCX, The Prodigy, LCD Soundsystem, Loyle Carner, and Gracie Abrams headlined across the other stages, while surprise sets — which kicked off with Lorde's unannounced opening performance — kept everyone guessing. As it closes out for another year, here's all the best dressed celebrities to attend Glastonbury 2025.
