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Kate Moss Double Charges Americans For Topshop Collection

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May 11th, 2007 by Castina

Tagged as: Kate Moss, Topshop


 

Kate Moss is being accused of ripping off Americans by sometimes pricing items in the United States nearly $100 more than their purchase prcie in the UK.

 

Kate is selling exactly the same clothes in both the U.S. and Britain.

Topshop has claimed exporting the clothes to the US bumped up the cost – a claim which has raised eyebrows as most of the garments are made overseas in India, China and Mauritius.

“It is slightly more expensive in the US because it is being shipped from the UK but it is amazingly good value for Barneys, who determine the pricing,” says Topshop’s spokewoman.

Barneys sold an estimated 11,000 garments in its first day of stocking 26 items from the range and was said to be ordering twice as many in its next delivery.

The store’s creative director Simon Doonan said: “This is a level of competitive shopping that even New Yorkers have not encountered before.”

“So extraordinary was the spending spree that he even recommended customers wear “as little as possible to be able to try on loads of things really quickly and get in and out of the dressing room and back on the floor to snatch things before another girl does.”

“Anything she wears, people want,” says eighteen year old Brittney Hershkowitz who wanted outside of Barneys in New York City for four hours in an effort to snag a KM Topshop original.

New York jewelery designer Jane Ko, 31 says: “It is more about her style. She has a magic touch – no matter what she wears, it is fabulous.”

The New York Post, coined the collection Duplikate, complaining: “looks like Kate copying a lot of other people’s stuff Kate’s worn before.”  

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