Top Shop boss ready to sign Christina Aguilera in £4million deal to design new fashion range
EXCLUSIVE by Zoe Griffin 28/12/2008
Here’s a sprig of festive gossip to make Britney Spears and the rest of the fashion wannabes turn Green with envy.
I hear billionaire Sir Philip Green has been courting Brit’s old rival Christina Aguilera to design new ranges for his TopShop empire.
Aggy could expect to earn around £1million per range ...very nice work if you can get it.
However, there’s no whisper from my that Christina will replace Kate Moss – his most successful signing. Instead, Christina, 28, will be brought in to create her own additional lines to sell alongside Kate's.
The source told me: “Sir Philip has started talks with Christina and hopes to sign a deal soon. She has visited his offices in London and they are thrashing out the details.
“Philip loves her style and believes she would add something new to TopShop. Christina is the blonde bombshell who is into pop whereas Kate is the rock chick and model.
"She’d appeal to a younger shopper than Kate."
Big Phil does not usually get it wrong – hence his personal fortune of £4.3billion. Signing Kate, 34, was a stroke of genius and she has created seven collections since May 2007.
Kate recently inked a new deal with Green – worth £4million a year – for three more years and she will be developing lingerie and accessories on top of her fashion collections. Mind you, I can’t say I’ve been particularly taken by Green's own style this Christmas.
He’s been spotted wearing a series of vile T-shirts, including a Frankie-style Relax shirt, while on holiday in Barbados with pals Simon Cowell and Michael Winner. Phil’s face has also been superimposed on a Sid and Nancy T-shirt along with Cowell, Winner, and Sylvester Stallone as the Sex Pistols.
A tad less arrogant than Winner’s very unhelpful “Calm Down Dear, It’s Only A Recession” T-shirt, though.
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