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Last weekend my girlfriend bought a coat from TK Maxx in Stockport that contains fur. You wouldn’t know by looking at it, since the fur is on the inside. TK Maxx doesn’t have a particularly good track record in this area. The chain has been caught out previously, selling real fur marked up as fake. Others have [...]

It’s now more than seven months since Channel 4 pulled The Devil Wears Primark, an Alexa Chung-fronted documentary (no, really) which was supposed to have examined Primark’s use of sweat shops. The C4 website says: The advertised transmission of The Devil Wears Primark on Sunday 1 June 2008 was postponed. We plan to show the [...]

Just set the video for The Devil Wears Primark and found myself recording a shite film called Without a Paddle instead. As mentioned previously, I was quite looking forward to this (notwithstanding the fact that it’s presented by Alexa Chung, who manages to both look and sound annoying, as well as having an annoying name). [...]

It will be depressing if the imminent destruction of the world is allowed to come about while Mondeo man worries about the cost of diesel, as the Guardian suggested yesterday. But at least another vaguely ethical issue seems to be rising up the media agenda like rubbish school dinners and free-range eggs. I’m talking about [...]

Slightly threatening “non-threatening” man in funny glasses calling women “girlfriend”, staring at their “bangers” (it means “tits”, rather than “sausages”) and bellowing in a hoarse voice while coercing them into stripping naked in front of two thousand strangers in the Arndale centre? It must be that Gok Wan, off of the Television, who has invented [...]

Mike Jeffries, the boss of Abercrombie & Fitch, thinks the store will still be trading from London’s Savile Row in “200 years time”. He appeared on BBC Four’s documentary series Savile Row tonight, which featured a lot of grumbling, sharp-suited tailors bemoaning the presence on “the Row” of A&F, which opened its first store outside [...]

Jeremy Paxman has provoked a veritable explosion of mild outrage in the papers after daring to question the age-old tradition that blokes with grey hair must always wear a tie while at work. His Newsnight blog suggests ties are now the preserve of “dodgy estate agents” (nothing like a 1980s stereotype to start the day), [...]

Marks & Spencer is launching a £150 suit that allows you to control your iPod using a controller hidden in the lapel and wires concealed within the lining, reports the Daily Mail. I can’t possibly imagine why anyone would want such a thing, other than to mark themselves out as the biggest prat in the [...]