Coronavirus has impacted every aspect of our lives, including the way we buy our clothes. The fast fashion industry has been turned upside-down by shop closures and changes in levels of demand, and this in turn has a massive knock-on effect on the supply chain. The result? More than two billion US dollars worth of clothing orders have been called off in developing countries during the pandemic, with no payment being made to manufacturers.
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It was the final straw, the pointless argument that was the nail in the coffin of my disastrous on/off, mostly pen-pal friendship with David 1.0. You simply cannot call what we have been resuscitating every now and then a ‘relationship’, given we’ve not had sex since October, and then it was disappointing. The vintage physical contact took place in my lovely room at the Rosewood hotel in London, where I was staying for work. He had brought sex toys and a blindfold, so there was no skin on skin, no actual kissing, merely him rummaging, as though wanting to find Marmite in the back of a cupboard. I was not aroused. Instead I felt annoyed at the blindfold, given I could no longer admire the twinkling erotic edifice that is the London Shard.