Tophop, New York

Store of the Month: Ushering in the new month, Sir Philip Green finally took the Topshop fascia across the pond, opening a much-anticipated and much-delayed four-floor store on New York’s Broadway that referenced its Brit origins at every turn. The store design was unashamedly aimed at high glitz fashion types and on opening day shoppers queued around the block to snap up stock seen for the first time in the Big Apple. Green’s Gotham outpost has rarely been anything other than busy since.

Review of the year 2009