This Summer the Oxfam Festival Shop will be touring the nation's festivals bringing the best of our unique and vintage items, plus festival essentials such as wellies and waterproofs to keep you warm and dry. Managed by Lisa Morris and Fran Tutt, the Oxfam Festival Shop is staffed by a team of volunteers from across Oxfam's high street shop network. In 2012, the team managed seven shops, traded...

From Whistles to Mulberry, Daks to Paul Smith - the Oxfam shop at Royal Windsor was bursting with fashion gems for women and men. Set amongst an array of equestrian wear and artisan craft stalls the Oxfam shop stood out with its bright Hermes scarves and quirky displays. So, what was the first thing to do? Get mooching around the rails of course! I firstly had a look at some of the men's clothes on offer, getting shop...

Spring is here and yet we are still waking up to grey skies and an absence of light and colour.  But do not despair, there is at least one place in London where you can get a quick colour fix as well as some creative inspiration. In the heart of Bermondsey, standing amidst the Dickensian labyrinth of streets, is a colourful building more reminiscent of Mexico or Miami than London: the wonderful Fashion and...

WRITTEN BY: EMMA STEPHENSON, FASHION INTERN AT WASTESAVER.  We all love clothes and fashion here at Oxfam, so we thought what better excuse than to hold a fashion show. For weeks the team has been busy sorting through hundreds of clothes and collecting items for sale in our pop-up shop. We have embraced the Spring/Summer trend of floral pattern with skirts, tops, jackets and dresses covered in flowers and prints. This theme...

Oxfam Fashion has been keeping up to date with some of the brilliant ideas for Get Together in the UK. Whatever you love doing, baking to biking, fashion to flapjacks Oxfam is encouraging you to host an event to celebrate International Women's Day on 8 March.  The aim is to raise money to help women worldwide live life without poverty. The 2013 celebrations launched with an event in London hosted by broadcaster and writer Lauren...

I can't tell you how excited I was when I found out that Rumble in the Jumble was happening again this year. The Oxfam Get Together event, hosted by Radio 1's Gemma Cairney and friends, celebrated its second birthday on Saturday 26th January.  I went along last year as part of my final major project and this year I was lucky enough to go as an Oxfam Fashion blogger. Gemma Cairney, Grace Woodward, Cherry Healey,...

It was only a few days ago that Oxfam's team fash were perched behind the Shwop Shop cash box for the Oxfam and Marks & Spencer pop-up shop but we're reminiscing already! The two-day event was a massive success in raising awareness about the Shwopping campaign whilst giving our visitors the chance to get their hands on some unique, quality garments and celebrity clothes - with all money raised going to support Oxfam's...

Marks & Spencer and Oxfam are holding a two-day pop-up shwop shop this week at the flagship M&S Marble Arch store. Shwoppers can snap up designer bargains donated by Britain's top contemporary style icons including Alexa Chung, Daisy Lowe, Jo Wood and Zandra Rhodes - as well as the best items shwopped at M&S from the public.   Running on the 24th and 25th January, the celebrity shop will be staffed...

We all lead pretty hectic lives nowadays. I know that even when I'm doing nothing, I'm doing something. Waiting for a train, I'll just check what's happening on Twitter. Having a relaxed evening at home, I'll have a movie on while I reply to emails, with Facebook and a bit of online shopping open in the background. I'm never really doing nothing; I'm always connected to the hubbub of the rest of the world.  ...

Creativity was rife at this year's Clothes Show Live, and this was certainly reflected on the Diet Coke Image catwalk. Graduate students from universities such as Wolverhampton, Falmouth and De Montfort showcased their designs for the Clothes Show Live audience throughout the day. Designs were greatly varied from unusual bright pieces, to patterned pastels and wearable neutrals. ...