Editors' Top Reads: News from Topshop, Vuori, Selfridges and more...
Here are some of this week’s news and features highlights handpicked by TheIndustry.fashion team.
Topshop finds its London home again, this time at Liberty
Sound the alarms! Topshop is back in London. But this time, there's no Oxford Street chaos (despite being just a hop, skip and a jump away), just a chic takeover of Liberty’s central atrium. Think of it as your teenage fashion crush showing up at a classy cocktail party: familiar, exciting, yet slightly grown-up.
Launching 28 August, Topshop and Topman will fill Liberty with all the printed maxi dresses, faux fur jackets and nostalgic kitsch we know and love. It really is the British retail match made in heaven.
For those of us who grew up wandering Oxford Street this is exactly what we’d hoped for: a chance to relive the magic. Topshop's Managing Director, Michelle Wilson, calls it "reconnecting with our community in real life". Translation: come revel in a little nostalgia and maybe swipe a memory - or a jacket - while you’re at it.
The collaboration is symbolic for shoppers, many of whom still associate Topshop with its sprawling Oxford Street store that closed in 2020 following the collapse of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia group. Its return via Liberty, a heritage retailer with strong cultural cachet, underlines both brands’ ambition to align with British fashion identity. Now, we are patiently waiting for its standalone store return.
Chloé Burney, Senior News & Features Writer.
TheIndustry.fashion Awards Winners' Interview: Christian Toennesen, Sustainability Director, Selfridges Group
In this series, TheIndustry.fashion continues to celebrate the achievements of the winning brands from TheIndustry.fashion Awards 2025 through a collection of dedicated interviews.
With the Awards dedicated to People, Planet & Purpose, we set out to uncover the strategies driving positive change in the industry - from sustainable and circular practices to strategies amplifying diverse voices and supporting community and charitable causes.
Within the Planet category, Selfridges won the award for Retail Excellence. Christian Toennesen, Sustainability Director at Selfridges Group, speaks about the retailer's implementation of sustainable practices, how these initiatives are communicated to customers, the response they've received, and more.
Plus, as the Retail Excellence award was sponsored by Accruent, hear from the company about the trends it sees shaping the future of fashion and how it is positioned to help businesses stay ahead of these changes.
Sophie Smith, News Editor & Senior Features Writer.
BOSS revealed as Spurs’ official fashion partner for 2025/26 season
It was interesting to read this week that BOSS has been signed up by Spurs as its “official fashion partner” for the 2025/26. There was once a time when it may have been considered in poor taste for a German brand with such history to kit out a football team with a large Jewish following, for obvious reasons, as it’s well documented that Hugo Boss supplied uniforms to the Nazis during World War II, and Hugo Boss himself was reportedly a Nazi. Thankfully, any such associations are long gone!
What is also interesting, though, is the chosen colour of the pre-match suit that the players will wear for selected games and “special occasions”. The technical and packable travel-ready jacket/overshirt and coordinating trousers in a performance stretch fabric are cream. It brings back memories of the infamous white, or ‘ecru’ suits that the Liverpool players, nicknamed ‘The Spice Boys’ for their sins, wore on the pitch prior to being beaten by Manchester United in the 1996 FA Cup final.
Manchester United manager at the time, Sir Alex Ferguson, correctly predicted the outcome of the cup final the moment he saw Liverpool’s white Giorgio Armani suits. He apparently turned to his assistant (and former United player) Brian Kidd and said: "1-0, because of that."
Ferguson also noted that Liverpool manager Roy Evans and his assistant Ron Moran had black suits on. “I think they were embarrassed”, he reportedly commented.
On that note, it’s funny then that the Spurs coaching team, including new manager and cool character Thomas Frank, will be dressed in sharper BOSS navy suits on matchdays. More understated, it’s definitely an easier look to wear, especially in defeat!
Tom Bottomley, Contributing Editor.
British tennis star Jack Draper joins Vuori athlete roster in multi-year deal
This story stood out for me this week, not just because am a total tennis-head, but because of what it says about the rise of a new generation of athleisure brands and also the design credentials (particularly when it comes to tennis, which is hugely influential style wise) of the major legacy sportswear brands, such as Nike and Adidas.
This week, British men's number one and world number five Jack Draper revealed he has jumped ship from Nike to Californian athleisure brand Vuori in what has been described as a "transformational" deal. Word has it Draper will be paid $6m a year (though that is unconfirmed) but perhaps most importantly for a tennis star who likes to do things his own way, the values of Vuori appeal to him, as does the chance to collaborate on the design of a signature kit.
Draper is a reserved character who likes to make big style statements, with both his hair and his kits – he was a gift for Nike but they let him go.
Interestingly, for a wealthy, young man in his 20s, he seems uninterested in the trappings of wealth. When not on court, he is perhaps best known for his ambassador role for the Alzheimer's Society, which he supports as his beloved grandmother and first tennis coach suffers from the condition. (He's also one of the faces of British brand Burberry, who signed him earlier this year.)
It's perhaps unsurprising then that he's switched to brand, which is barely known in tennis, but is well known for its values promoting well-being and mental health as much as physical fitness. It's also unsurprising to see some big stars moving away from Nike and Adidas on the basis of the designs on offer alone. I've just seen the previews of the kits for the US Open, which is just kicking off in New York and apart from one Y3 dress from Adidas, I am completely underwhelmed and completely confused at some of the designs.
Tennis has huge influence beyond the sport when it comes to style, and it seems like the big two are going to lose out if they don't up their game.
Lauretta Roberts, Co-founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief.
