Fashion math: Save money (theoretically) by flying to England to buy Mark Fast and Erdem

The work of four Canadian designers will be featured in a designer pop-up at an outlet mall outside of Oxford, England. The British Design Collective at Bicester Village outlet mall offers buyers the opportunity to pick up looks from Erdem, Mark Fast, Jean Pierre Braganza and Todd Lynn (as well as, you know, some British designers) at up to 50 per cent off. The pop-up opens March 31 and will be open for six weeks.

For argument’s sake, lets take these pieces from Mark Fast and Erdem that we found at full price on British retailer Browns’ website (brownsfashion.com). (Browns has no affiliation with the sale, nor do we know if these pieces will be available.) The pieces are, from clockwise from the top left corner, left, are £1,595, £985, £420 and £240. At the current rate of exchange that’s at total of CAD$4,910.

Let’s do some fashion math:

$4,910 x 50% discount + $1081.68 flight (leaving from Toronto on March 30, returning April 4—the cheapest flight we could find considering we have other work to do) + 4 nights (one in Oxford, three in London, because let’s be realistic, you’re only spending one night in Oxford) x $150 (at least) = $3,968.68.

Which nets you $923.32*. Even accounting for meals, you’re out ahead and you get some designer clothes and a visit to beautiful Bicester!

Not that we need to justify or anything.

*Assuming you’re dropping the five grand anyway. For illustrative purposes only. Please note that fashionmagazine.com does not guarantee prices, discount levels, item availability, airline fares, math skills  or well-behaved queues.

British Design Collective [Bicester Village]

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