Topshop aligns with ordinary people as Sir Philip Green stays away

Topshop’s fashion week show provides instant retail gratification with a pop-up shop selling clothing fresh off the catwalk

He still has his knighthood, but Sir Philip Green has forfeited another prized bauble of social status: his place on the front row at London fashion week.

Green, who previously revelled in the photo opportunities provided by his Topshop catwalk show, was nowhere to be seen on Sunday afternoon. One imagines that whoever would have been responsible for recruiting the supermodel required to sit next to him breathed a sigh of relief when that announcement was made.