Asda's £16 answer to couture, music for office shirkers and could YOU be the next JK Rowling?

AT £16 IT ASDA BE THE END OF COUTURE

The end of couture? Kate Moss in the Balmain dress recently copied by Asda

16 if version of the Balmain Asda pounds over the clothes high fashion pounds?

After all, when a designer label look - a - like sitting toilet roll and lettuce, in your supermarket slightly lost? Cachet,

Yes, the purists think, cheaper version, cheaper, and not a patch on the original.

But we must hold on, when Kate moss Balmain dressed in a night, shoulders - seam burst. If the only cost £16 million, she may not like her, but when the price tag, you expect sports three zero more, your cash.
High Street 'interpretations' of designer labels are nothing new  -  in fact Topshop, New Look and M&S have even been forced to withdraw items that bore too close a resemblance to those by the likes of Chloe and Jimmy Choo.
But whereas when the economy was booming it was déclassé to wear anything but the real deal, now there's a reverse snobbery that compels you to flaunt your floundering finances (even if yours aren't actually floundering) for fear of seeming crass. Bargains, you see, are the new bling.
At a dinner party last week, I complimented a label-loving fashionista friend on her dress. 'Is it a TTD?' I asked, namechecking Roland Mouret's latest £645 design.
'God, no,' she laughed. 'It's a Zara rip-off. It's brilliant, isn't it?' I rest my case.