L
aura Elizabeth Klein once considered following her friends to university. But on the advice of her father Marc Klein, she decided
to pursue another path.
Laura Klein
She worked her way up through the Arcadia Group, from initially organising hangers at her local Miss Selfridge shop in Brighton to leading a team at the Topshop store in Knightsbridge. There, she would call Sir Philip Green every day with the latest sale figures.
She describes the group’s collapse over the pandemic as “an end of an era”.
She was right to follow her father’s advice, she now recognises.