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Half Price Sale's in Knightsbridge

Jack | 26.11.2007 17:33 | Culture | Globalisation | London

80's slogan t-shirts are back in fashion! A group of Space Hijacker agents decided to wear the very latests trend setting t-shirts on a 'Buy Nothing Day' jaunt around London.

Agents in Gucci
Agents in Gucci

The Harrods Stair well
The Harrods Stair well

Agent Monty tidies in LV
Agent Monty tidies in LV

Agent PA helps out at Nike Town
Agent PA helps out at Nike Town

Agent Koshka browsing the apple store
Agent Koshka browsing the apple store


A team of Space Hijackers secret agents headed into Knightsbridge in London on Saturday to celebrate Buy Nothing Day, a day of corporate chainstore chaos.

Wearing the very latest 'Nu Rave' slogan t-shirts our intrepid agents decided to go and have a look around some of London's most exclusive stores. Our first stop was Harrords, and after avoiding the piles of ferrari's, porsches and mercedes, we managed to get instore and up to the top floor.

Our trendy "EVERYTHING IN STORE HALF PRICE TODAY" t-shirts certainly raised some eyebrows from the fashion conscious customers, several even came up and started asking us for directions etc. Helpful and polite as always we directed customers, tidied up messy rails of clothes and generally played the part of good members of society as we walked around the store.

Unfortunately the security teams seemed to have other ideas, and promtly attempted to round us up and eject us from the store! Cries of the fact that our shirts were the very latest katherine hamnett designer shirts, seemed to fall on deaf ears, and we were told that we may be arrested if we entered the store again!

Oh well, never mind, onto Gucci and Louis Vuitton for some designer window shopping. Entering the Gucci boutique in Knightsbrige we quickly found out that there were more of us than actual staff present, which was an entertaining prospect. However, in a move which was obviously down to brand envy, we were once again ejected. The security even followed us across the road and into Louis Vuitton calling out "Don't let them in, it's a prank!" as we entered the store. Why the cheek of it!

After looking around and helping customers choose their luggage we decided to leave the store and welcome people inside from the streets. However the weather was getting rather nippy by this point, so after a swift drink we decided to head into Oxford Street and onto Nike Town and Top Shop.

The security here was rather oafish to say the least, with three of our agents being dragged down to a special Top Shop instore prison which they have behind the counters. Thankfully after threats of sueing for wrongful imprisonment, and the fact we had a lawyer and criminal barrister amongst our ranks things were soon put right.

Unfortunately after all of the excitement of dealing with the grumpy security, we forgot to actually buy any consumer goods. Oh well, best go back next year ;-)

Jack
- Homepage: http://www.spacehijackers.org

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