It may be that time of year when we're all overindulging and overspending, but let's spare a moment to think of those less fortunate.

That's exactly what The Empty Shop aims to do when it sets up shop in Manchester Arndale on Thursday 23 January for ten days only.

Instead of customers buying clothes, The Empty Shop will encourage shoppers to become givers by offering clothes to the shop instead of taking them away.

In return, the shop is set to make a real event out of giving back by getting local fashion stylists and bloggers to turn second hand clothes into key looks for the season, all on display in what is set to be a rather swanky space in Manchester Arndale's central square, just near Next.

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The space will then be emptied each evening with clothes going to local homeless charity The Mustard Tree, leaving The Empty shop ready to receive new donations again the following day.

If the original Empty Shop concept in Sao Paulo, Brazil is anything to go by, this modern approach to donating to charity is expected to become quite the fashion hot spot when it arrives in the city. Shop and bar fitters Clarke Gough are responsible for bringing the idea to the UK and will be providing the shop and managing the whole project.

The Sao Paulo incentive raised 3.2 tonnes of unwanted clothes for Brazil's homeless. Lets see if Manchester can top that...

The Empty Shop will open on Thursday 23 January for ten days in Manchester Arndale's central square, in front of Next.