PrettyLittleThing tycoon Umar Kamani wants to buy Topshop

Rory Tingle - DailyMail - 31/10
Umar - who founded PrettyLittleThing in 2012 before selling his stake in 2020 for £330m and stepping down as CEO in April - announced his interest in the brand today.

PrettyLittleThing tycoon Umar Kamani today vowed to buy Topshop and 'bring it back like the good old days' as its struggling owner ASOS eyes up a sale. 

Topshop was a British fashion phenomenon from the late 2000s to the early 2010s before ASOS bought it from the ruins of Sir Philip's Green's collapsed Arcadia empire in 2021. 

Umar - who founded PrettyLittleThing in 2012 before selling his stake in 2020 for £330m and stepping down as CEO in April - announced his interest in the brand on Twitter today. 

Commenting above a report about ASOS considering a sale of TopShop, he wrote: 'I would buy this and bring it back like the good old days.. rockin and rollin.'

A purchase would represent the latest milestone for the 35-year-old's wildly successful career. He set up PLT alongside his brother, Adam, in 2012 - and grew it from a simple website selling accessories to a global brand now worth an estimated £3.8billion.   

Umar Kamani with his fiancee, the model Nada Adelle, at Naomi Campbell's birthday party at Cannes in May  

The couple were seen posing with Campbell and the American model Alton Mason

Umar with his father, Mahmud, who founded Bohoo in 2006 with Carol Kane

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