To celebrate Halloween, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is launching the Little Shwop of Horrors, a pop-up store in collaboration with Oxfam as part of its Plan A programme, which aims to give clothes an afterlife of their own. M&S and Oxfam’s Shwopping collaboration urges shoppers to donate, or ‘shwop’, an unwanted item of clothing that will go on to be re-sold, re-used or recycled by Oxfam, cutting waste while raising much-needed funds for the charity. Joanna Lumley will open the Little Shwop of Horrors, which will be live from October 28 to 29 – see Fashion and Beauty Insight Events. This one-off secondhand store will sell a selection of ghoulish garments donated by the UK public and a selection of celebrities. Since its launch in April 2012, Oxfam has received 8.9 million items of clothing thanks to Shwopping, worth an estimated £5.9 million for the charity. All money raised by Shwopping is used to support Oxfam’s projects around the world working to alleviate poverty.

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