Model Kate Moss may be Topshop’s high-fashion entry into China
British fashion retailer Topshop is considering using a Spring 2014 collection to be designed with Kate Moss to break into china, billionaire owner Philip Green said Tuesday. “This may be the launch of china. We’ve had a couple of offers to go to china with Kate,” Mr. Green told the World retail congress, a day after announcing Topshop was resuming a collabora- tion with the supermodel, left, after a three-year hiatus. Mr. Green’s Arcadia Group Ltd., which also trades as the Topman, burton, dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, Wallis and evans brands, is britain’s largest privately owned clothier with more than 2,500 outlets. Like european rivals Inditex SA and H&M co., Topshop is seeking to make up for a stagnant home market by expanding overseas, with India, brazil and Mexico also under consideration.