Mary Portas - I Shop, Therefore I am

Mary Portas takes us back to the 1990s: Britpop is dominating the charts, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell are on the cover of every glossy magazine and British fashion is ripe for reinvention. Leading the charge is a twenty something who has been brought in to revitalize Harvey Nichols, at the tine more likely to be associated with dowagers than daring designers.With two babies at home, a sceptical, all-male management team to impress, and pressure to bring in new brands and customers, Mary steps into a world she doesn't fully understand. At first it shows but that vulnerability quickly reveals itself as vision. By the millennium, the store would be renowned for its outrageous, headline grabbing, traffic-stopping window displays, patronage by style icon Lady Di and bolly-swigging duo Patsy and Edina of the iconic sitcom Ab Fab - no longer fusty old Harvey Nichols but Harvey Nicks, daaarling!In conversation with Lucinda Montefiore.
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