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After a post-fire hiatus, New Look is back and bigger than ever at the old Borders on Oxford Street. Opening on Friday, it boasts 26,000 square feet of retail space, their biggest ever menswear department (who knew?) and a whole floor dedicated to shoes. And then there’s the Starbucks which seems to have stuck around. Sounds an awful lot like Topshop’s mini city just up the road in its all-encompassing-ness, doesn’t it?
So in defiance to New Look’s new, er, look, Topshop have set their sights high. Harrods high. Sir Phil has bought the 19,000 square feet retail space opposite Al Fayed’s megalith on Brompton Road with a view to moving the beating heart of his operation there this Easter.
It seems nothing’s sacred – even St Paul’s Cathedral is getting a neighbour in the form of the enormous One New Change development, at a whopping 220,000 square feet of retail space, and the legendary and rather charming Antiquarius building on the King’s Road is re-opening as London’s second Anthropologie in March.
We’re approaching this like you would any dangerous fish. With a spear in one hand, and a spoon in the other. What – we’ve got to at least get a little taste.
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New Look Oxford Street opens 5th February, from Midday.
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