The news will be huge for 2010s high street shoppers
13:16, 03 Sep 2025Updated 13:17, 03 Sep 2025
The former Topshop store in Liverpool in 2021
In huge news for high street fashion fans, Topshop has announced that the brand will be making a return across the UK next year. The Topshop brand will be coming back to high streets across the UK as it partners with John Lewis.
In a bid to attract more young people to its stores John Lewis shops nationwide will stock Topshop and Topman clothes from February 2026 as part of a new partnership between the firms. John Lewis confirmed today (Wednesday September 6) that it will start selling Topshop products in 32 of its stores across the UK next year, with Topman products launching in six sites.
Topshop shut all its high street stores in 2021 after parent firm Arcadia tumbled into administration.
The news of the John Lewis partnership comes less than a week after Topshop returned to physical stores with products in Liberty in central London.
Peter Ruis, managing director of John Lewis, said: “We think this is something people will queue outside the door for. We have younger customers, beauty is a classic example of that, and John Lewis is multi-generational, but I think it will bring in more.
“It will bring more of those ‘family day out’ shoppers and as the only place to go for it, we will hopefully be driving customers who don’t always come through the door, across all age groups.”
Michelle Wilson, managing director of Topshop, said: “The conversations we’ve had with customers around the relaunch is that people are desperate to see Topshop back in stores, so we do think we will bring customers into John Lewis that might not have come in before.”
Topshop’s 2021 closures included Liverpool’s huge Church Street store, which encompassed a Topman, a hair salon, and a personal shopping service.
Following the collapse of Arcadia, Topshop was bought by online-retailer Asos.
Topshop products will now return to physical stores at the following John Lewis locations:
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Newcastle
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Trafford, Manchester
- Cheadle, Manchester
- Cardiff, Wales
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
- Leicester, Leicestershire
- Solihull, West Midlands
- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Welwyn, Hertfordshire
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Cribbs Causeway, Bristol
- Exeter, Devon
- Oxford, Oxfordshire
- High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Reading, Berkshire
- Bluewater Kent
- Horsham, West Sussex
- Southampton, Hampshire
- Brent Cross, London
- Stratford, London
- Canary Wharf, London
- Oxford Street, London
- Peter Jones, London
- White City, London
- Kingston, London
Topshop managing director Michelle Wilson first hinted at the business’ return in an exclusive interview with Drapers earlier in the year.
Wilson confirmed that the business would return to the high street in autumn through one wholesale partner, now known to be John Lewis.
While fans speculated the brands return to their former flagship store at 214 Oxford Street, that spot is now being occupied by an Ikea.