Poseur's Paradise ; Achingly Hip, the New Abercrombie Fitch Store Pays Scantily Clad Men Pounds 7.50 an Hour to Stand Around Looking Pretty. So What Happened When Our Man Went Under (Not Very Much) Cover?

Daily MailApril 07, 2007

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TWO young, shirtless men in low-slung jeans greet you at the door.

Disco music pounds out, the air is full of a sickly sweet scent and it is so dark, customers get lost and panic. This is shopping Abercrombie Fitch style. Savile Row will never be the same.

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Poseur's Paradise ; Achingly Hip, the New Abercrombie Fitch Store Pays Scantily Clad Men Pounds 7.50 an Hour to Stand Around Looking Pretty. So What Happened When Our Man Went Under (Not Very Much) Cover?

I've been working undercover there after I took a job as an in- store model at the multibillion dollar U.S. clothing company's new London store - their first venture into Europe.

My aim was to report from the inside.

It happened by chance. You don't see many Canadian woman in turquoise wellies on public transport in London, so I had already noticed the store's talent scout when she noticed me, at a London Tube station. I was curious. So was she.

'You've got just the right look to come and w...

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