It is also home to the Tasmanian devil - the Australian hyena, less than one-third the size of its African ecological counterpart, and made famous by the Warner Bros. cartoon.
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).