Designer clothes worth £50,000, which includes pieces by Meghan Markle’s preferred fashion label, were recently dropped off at a charity shop.
The donation included a Prada skirt, Chloe handbag, Gucci wool coat, Rupert Sanderson shoes and a Mulberry dress – worth more than £900.
It’s been put on sale for less than half the price at £425.
The bundle also features a luxury silk shirt worth £1,180 by Canadian brand Ederm, favoured by the Duchess of Sussex. It’s selling for £245.
All of the items are selling at the Mind charity shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
The items all together would have originally cost around £50,000 – and staff are hoping to make at least £15,000 for the mental health charity.
Many items still had their original price tags on and had never been worn before they were gifted to the high street store last week.
Shop manager Alison Homewood said: ‘It’s fantastic to get all this stuff, it has just caused a huge interest.
‘We have had Prada, Gucci, Mulberry, Kate Spade and a lovely houndstooth check Burberry style coat by Gucci which went for more than £400.
‘We also had a beautiful Valentino dress we sold for £650 in plain black with a gorgeous ice-cream pleat in pale blue, yellow and pink.
‘It’s amazing. We are really really busy, but we are not complaining.
‘The Ederm skirt worth £1,180 has not sold yet, but I am sure it will soon – it is only £245, it’s a bargain.’
Staff unveiled the special collection in a shop window earlier this week and only a quarter of the designer items remain.
A generous donor gifted the collection last week and staff researched each item’s value in a bid to get the best return for the charity.
Alison, who has worked at Mind for 14 years, said: ‘I don’t know how much a Prada skirt costs and so I have to go on the Prada website and look which is why the collection didn’t come out until Wednesday.
‘The items came in at the end of last week – it is a regular donor and she donates stuff to us on quite a regular basis.’
The store has celebrated two decades in business and brought in more than £2 million for the charity.
While Alison is thankful for the high value donations, she does not want them to detract from the kindness of other donors that contribute to the shop’s everyday success.
She said: ‘It is exciting to see these glamorous, high fashion items.
‘But it is always exciting to look in any bag because you never know what you will find and more importantly, it is more money for the charity.
‘We treat every donor the same. It doesn’t mater if they are dropping off one item or 100 items, we are always grateful.
‘It’s fantastic to get all this stuff but it does not detract from the normal donations – the stuff we sell for £5 or £6.
‘Yes, it’s great to have this amazing quality clothing – but it’s amazing that people bring things in everyday otherwise we would not have been here for 20 years.’
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