US fashion favourite Forever 21 is about to open its first flagship store at Lakeside Shopping Centre.

They currently have only one store open in the UK at Birmingham’s Bullring, which opened last year, but it seems the Essex shopping hot-spot is the perfect next step in conquering the British fashion scene.

The Essex-based store is set to open for Christmas 2013 as part of an £8 million development at the centre, where the new store will take over the 31,500 square foot unit held by Topshop and Topman, who will move to another existing unit currently occupied by BHS, reports LDNfashion.

But it doesn’t seem their expansion plans end there, with deals to open shop on Oxford Street this month, Bluewater in Kent, Liverpool’s One Centre and Glasgow’s new Buchanan Street development set to unfold in the next few years.

We’re too excited for words.