Britons are expected to spend £4.8 billion (around $6.4 billion) on second-hand goods online in 2025, up from £4.3 billion (approximately $4.9 billion) in 2024, according to a study by the Centre for ...

Depop and Selfridges are sewing an AI thread into their clothes. The fashion retailers have enlisted British startup Kelp Technologies to analyse market trends and prices of second-hand apparel. Kelp ...

The average Briton now spends around £300 on presents alone at Christmas, with a third worried about the impact of the season ...

Thrifting is awesome. Nowadays, most of us are “woke” enough to understand that avidly supporting fast fashion is one we can do without — and, as much as possible, buying second hand clothing is the ...

Not so long ago, buying second hand was seen as a last resort. Charity shops were there for the people who really needed them - though there have always been bargain hunters who love seeking out gems ...

Since shopping pre-loved, she believes she has saved almost £30,000, as many of the items she buys in charity shops and car ...

Shopping for clothes can be expensive when buying them for children. They tend to get dirty more quickly, and before you know it, they’ve already grown out of what you bought them. So, many people ...

In 2018, fashion designer Bobby Kolade moved from Berlin back to Uganda’s capital Kampala with the ambition of creating a home-grown fashion brand using Ugandan cotton. Things didn’t work out quite ...

In Ghana, second-hand clothing from the EU27+ contributed an estimated $76 million to the country's GDP (of which $35 million was direct), supporting at least 65,000 formal and informal jobs in 2023.