Second life

In Oxfam’s Second Hand September, we explore why pre-loved is the height of fashion

IN THE OLD DAYS, BLACK WAS NOT a cool colour. But no trend lasts forever, right? Surely we passed peak blackness with the Vantablack BMW a few years back. Because once you’ve hit the level of invisibi

HENRY FORD IS supposed to have proclaimed more than a century ago that ‘history is bunk’. There’s some doubt as to whether he actually uttered this pithy remark, but what we do know is that, when it c

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

In 2024, Sophie Boulderstone vowed to only buy second hand. Over a year later, she hasn’t looked back…

As thousands take on Oxfam’s challenge to buy purely pre-loved this month, Closer speaks to the charity shop pros…