Celebrities to staff Oxfam shop
A binliner full of questionable donations and a rolling staff of silver-haired part-time volunteers is the more usual formula for a charity shop. But next month Oxfam and Selfridges are set to raise the bar, with the launch of a swish pop-up charity shop selling clothes worn by the stars.
For one week from 14 May to 20 May the central London department store will play host to the Oxfam Curiosity shop, staffed by celebrities from Annie Lennox to Zoë Ball. It will stock a range of clothes, accessories and artefacts donated by a host of fashion names including Alexa Chung and Elle MacPherson and will be packaged in the departments store's famous canary-yellow carrier bags.
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A pair of Chanel boots, once MacPherson's, will sit next to a Mulberry skirt suit which was until recently hanging in Chung's wardrobe.
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Many of the designer items have the bonus of being pretty much unworn – Chung's Mulberry outfit is almost new but with a price tag in the region of £300, (about a third of its original price) it represents a considerable saving.