NEW YORK, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A partnership was
announced today to launch TOPSHOP and TOPMAN commencing with 14
Nordstrom stores across the country and on nordstrom.com from the
week of September 10th 2012.
Nordstrom will become the only large U.S. retailer to sell a
broad assortment of the British fashion brands' merchandise
in-store and online. TOPSHOP and TOPMAN have flagship stores in
New York, Chicago, Las
Vegas and Los Angeles
(opening Spring 2013), and their own U.S. designated websites
TOPSHOP.COM and TOPMAN.COM .
The TOPSHOP and TOPMAN departments at Nordstrom will have
mannequins, visual merchandising and store fixturing supplied from
the UK, and high profile locations within the men's and women's
apparel areas. They will feature a full selection of the hottest
looks from TOPSHOP and TOPMAN, including limited-edition pieces
created especially for Nordstrom. An expanded merchandise selection
will also be available on nordstrom.com.
Sir Philip Green said ''I believe
TOPSHOP and TOPMAN offer the Nordstrom customer something very
different and unique with our signature British fashion authority.
With new pieces being delivered from our design team on pretty much
a weekly basis – the ability to buy fresh, must-have looks every
time a customer visits is key to our brands' point of difference. I
admire what Pete and his team do at Nordstrom and I look forward to
working with them to create an exciting and dynamic retail
partnership."
"TOPSHOP and TOPMAN are internationally renowned leaders in
fashion and we are thrilled to start a relationship with them that
we hope will grow and prosper over the years," said Pete Nordstrom, president of merchandising for
Nordstrom, Inc. "We think our customers are going to love their
take on trend-led fashion at great prices."
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Nordstrom full-line store
locations that will feature the TOPSHOP and TOPMAN
include:
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Ala Moana (Honolulu,
HI)
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Oakbrook Center (Oakbrook,
IL)
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Barton Creek Square (Austin,
TX)
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Phipps Plaza (Atlanta,
GA)
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Burlington (Burlington,
MA)
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The Plaza at King of Prussia
(King of Prussia, PA)
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Chandler Fashion Center
(Chandler, AZ)
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San Francisco Centre (San
Francisco, CA)*
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Dadeland Mall (Miami,
FL)
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South Coast Plaza (Costa Mesa,
CA)*
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Garden State Plaza (Paramus,
NJ)
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Southcenter (Tukwila,
WA)
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Irvine Spectrum Center (Irvine,
CA)
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Valley Fair (San Jose,
CA)
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* Store will have TOPSHOP
only.
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ABOUT TOPSHOP: Since it launched in 1964, TOPSHOP has
become a major British style authority and one of fashion's biggest
success stories. In 1994, a TOPSHOP flagship store was born, as the
brand took over a 90,000 sq ft space at London Oxford Circus in the
heart of the West End. It remains there today, and is considered
the world's largest fashion store on the high street, attracting
over 200,000 shoppers each week. In the USA there are flagship stores in New York, Chicago and Las
Vegas, with Los Angeles
opening in Spring 2013.
TOPSHOP is the only high street brand to show on schedule at
London Fashion Week (LFW), and has recently celebrated ten years of
sponsoring New Gen – supporting young British designers and giving
them a platform to show within LFW and promote their collections to
the international press. It was announced at LFW in February of
this year that TOPSHOP will extend its sponsorship of this scheme
for a further ten years.
TOPSHOP is well known for its nurturing of young talent,
including Christopher Kane, Meadham
Kirchhoff, Hussein Chalayan, Richard
Nicoll and Mary Kantrantzou. In addition, the Boutique
collection offers reworked future classics in luxurious fabrics
with a focus on style rather than seasonal trends. All this sits
alongside TOPSHOP's trend-driven mainline, which includes glamorous
going out pieces, footwear, accessories and an extensive selection
of denim and jewellery.
The TOPSHOP Make-up collections tap into a wealth of existing
knowledge of the hottest trends, enabling the team to develop a
directional and fashion led way of approaching colour in
cosmetics.
TOPSHOP has 319 stores in the UK, with a further 137
international franchises operating in 37 countries. The US sites
are fully owned flagships, rather than franchise partner
operations.
ABOUT TOPMAN: TOPMAN has earned its sartorial stripes
with an unswerving, energetic approach to producing truly exciting
high-street men's fashion. Driving trends forward while shifting
the way men approach shopping, the brand's attitude to creating
brilliant, affordable and authoritative menswear is second to none.
Born in 1978, with 230 stores in Britain; almost every high street in the
country boasts its very own slice of TOPMAN. London's mega Oxford Circus flagship attracts
75,000 customers every week. The brand's transactional website
TOPMAN.COM sees over 555,000 visits per week and currently ships to
over 100 countries across the globe.
ABOUT ARCADIA GROUP:
Owned by Sir Philip Green and his
family and with eight of the United
Kingdom's best-known fashion and high street brands, each
with its own distinctive identity and market segment, Arcadia Group
is the UK's largest privately owned clothing retailer with more
than 2,500 outlets, and an international business that trades in 37
countries and delivers on line to more than 110 countries
worldwide. Recent key international openings were Australia, Canada, and Brazil.
In January 2011 Sir Philip was
honoured with the International Retailer Award at the National
Retail Federation's annual convention in New York.
ABOUT NORDSTROM: Nordstrom, Inc. is one of the nation's
leading fashion specialty retailers. Founded in 1901 as a shoe
store in Seattle, today Nordstrom
operates 231 stores in 31 states, including 117 full-line stores,
110 Nordstrom Racks, two Jeffrey boutiques, one treasure&bond
store and one clearance store. Nordstrom also serves customers
through Nordstrom.com and through its catalogs. Additionally, the
Company operates in the online private sale marketplace through its
subsidiary HauteLook. Nordstrom, Inc.'s common stock is publicly
traded on the NYSE under the symbol JWN.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
TOPSHOP/TOPMAN:
Tania.foster-brown@arcadiagroup.co.uk
or NY Press Office +1-212-966-9055 x 403
Nordstrom:
Brooke White
+1-206-303-3030
Brooke.White@nordstrom.com
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