For many of those who worked there, Topshop was more than just a job, making the fashion retail brand’s demise last week even more painful to witness

The fabulous lifestyle enjoyed by the retail mogul, now sunning it in Monaco, was reaped off the back of asset-stripping, dividend-hoovering and lack of investment in his Arcadia group, which collapsed last week

Slow to adapt and recognise change while being hit hard by Covid-19, the big brands at the squeezed middle of the clothing business are in deep trouble