Clothes shopping is essential in our lives, not to mention that it is therapeutic for a lot of us. But, it is also quite the budget-eater with so many trends coming and going and so much to choose from on the market. How can we avoid wasting all of our money on filling our wardrobe? After all, we never have anything to wear anyway, do we?
Whilst strolling the glamorous shopping streets of Shanghai, passing the enormous, over-sized versions of Louis Vuitton, Prada and Chanel amongst others, I was approached by a succession of eager Shanghainese, keen to take me down a back alley so that they could show me their perfect replicas. I was warned about this before I set off, but was not quite prepared for the contrast between the back street slums, in which the industry of replica handbags thrived, and the colossal designer outlets in which the genuine articles were housed.
