Topshop now has four stores here including a new 25, 000 sq-foot store in Los Angeles.
Unlike many other companies in these credit-squeezed times, money is not a problem for Topshop.
Topshop has long been a game changer, allowing anyone and everyone to mix high-street and high-end fashion.
At least that's what I remember of Topshop from five years ago, the last time I paid a visit.
It is a sartorial truism to say that when one is tired of Topshop, one is tired of fashion.
The personal-shopping area at Topshop has been spruced up since I last visited.
And the paparazzi are desperate for a sighting of supermodel Kate Moss, who designs a range of clothing for Topshop.
Shopping in Topshop takes energy, verve, enthusiasm and, oftentimes, dogged determination, such is the width and breadth of its offering.
Flaunting it was not what I had in mind when Sarah, the Topshop personal shopper, phoned me ahead of our meeting.
Big high street names, including Marks and Spencer, Next, Burton and Topshop, all shut stores in the city centre last year.
"Jane did a terrific job at creating the Topshop we know today, " said editor of the British edition of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman.
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Topshop has become a destination for fashionistas, teens and tourists alike, opening stores in New York, Las Vegas and, soon, Los Angeles.
But her eponymous clothing line with British retailer Topshop is a hit in 29 countries, including the U.K., the U.S., and Russia.
Toussant and Coombs expect to triple revenue in 2011 thanks to Timberland and smaller deals with Italian sporting wear company Moncler and London retailer Topshop.
The celebrity circus is in a full swing as the New York fashion world works itself into a state of frenzy over the Topshop opening.
He was also accused of smashing the front window of Topshop's flagship store in Oxford Street and making off with the leg of a mannequin.
Kate Moss, a supermodel, designed a line of clothes for Topshop, a British fashion chain, that is also being sold in Barneys, a New York department store.
"We opened seven SimplyBe stores last year, and now there is the male version, Jacamo, in five of them, dual-fascia stores like Topshop and Topman, " says director Paul Kendrick.
Recently, though, I have been bumping into stunning-looking women of a similar age to my own who proffer the same response to my question about their outfit's origin: Topshop.
For those of us beyond the age of 40, it might be equally accurate to posit that when one is tired of Topshop, one is just very, very tired.
In recent years she has helped make Topshop a byword for fashion among both celebrities and fashion-conscious teenage girls - exactly the kind of person he needs around the group.
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Arcadia Group, which owns high-street stores such as Topshop, Burtons and Miss Selfridge, will send a share of its bag sale income to children's charity Ty Hafan later in the year.
Topshop is currently selling 1920s inspired straw cloche hats.
So whatever the motive for Ms Shepherdson's departure, there are likely to be some people within Topshop who are worried that her instinct for fashion will be missed, even if others are betting her legacy will endure.
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In the last four years the 52-year-old clothier has rehabilitated two retail operations: British Home Stores (now known as BHS), a 76-year-old chain of department stores, and Arcadia Group, owner of popular outfitters like Topshop and Topman.
And so, in the interests of journalistic inquiry, I sent myself on a mission to Topshop to determine whether the aforementioned females had just gotten lucky or whether these days one can really expect to find clothes that one might truly want to wear.
For the rest of us, Topshop presents a knotty dilemma: the rewards can be great (a leather biker jacket I bought seven years ago is still regularly mistaken for Balenciaga) but the sacrifices are akin to a root canal (confusing layouts, too much clothing and herds of teenagers roaming with hyena-like intensity).
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