Sometimes, in these casual days, it’s easy to imagine that the days of the two-piece, and especially three-piece, suit are gone, but not at the Topshop/Topman flagship at Oxford Circus.

That may in fact be the case if you are a tie-wearer, as the fashion for open-necked shirts worn with a suit has been established for some years now, even in the most conservative institutions.

Yet pay a visit to the top floor of the Topshop/Topman flagship at Oxford Circus and it is quickly apparent that the suit is alive and well - as is the business of accompanying it with fetching neckwear. Here, a phalanx of besuited mannequins, arranged in ascending height courtesy of the plinths on which they are displayed, provides an introduction to the young fashion formalwear department.

In most instances this would be sufficient on the visual merchandising front, but the real showstopper in this case is overhead.

Here, a combination of linked, coloured cube shapes and white neon letters spelling out the word ‘suits’ makes this a department that is hard to look at without wanting to spend some time inspecting the offer.

This eyebrow-raiser is arranged within an atrium that allows natural daylight into the space, lifting what could otherwise be a generally sober-coloured range and highlighting the bright nature of the ties that have been added to the mannequins. And above all of this is a theatre-style lighting gantry, which appears to be rather more about image and feel than illumination and which takes the gaze yet higher into the void.

In terms of space, this is as big an area as many menswear stores and it is considerably more engaging than most, without the capex purse-strings having been tugged at too violently.

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