Once, the Topshop supremo could do no wrong. But with the collapse of BHS, the lavish lifestyle of this brash outsider who parties with Kate Moss, owns three yachts and commutes by jet from Monaco is now under scrutiny
For more than a decade Sir Philip Green has been king of the high street, strutting down Oxford Street, medallion swinging like Tony Manero at the end of Saturday Night Fever.
With his slicked-back curls and year-round tan, Green’s almost cartoonish persona is writ large over the multibillion-pound retail empire he commands. He shot to prominence in 2004 when he tried to wrest control of the national treasure that is Marks & Spencer, his pugnacious business style injecting rock’n’roll and supermodels into the staid world of suits and share prices.
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