I Shop, Therefore I Am – Mary Portas

Mary Portas at ‘Harvey Nicks’

The best thing about editing Tatler, which I did, briefly, in the 1980s, was meeting stylists, designers and fashion people: Joseph Ettedgui, Jean Muir, Manolo Blahnik. Their visual creativity and perfectionism were a tonic. They just wanted things to be fabulous, and new. Now, decades later, Mary Portas’s memories of her years at Harvey Nichols draw me right back into that fascination. I Shop, Therefore I Am is so enthralling that I kept pausin…

I Shop, Therefore I Am – Mary Portas

Published By: CanongatePages: 336Released On: 02/10/2025 It’s the 1990s: Britpop is dominating the charts, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell stare out from the cover of every glossy magazine and British fashion is ripe for reinvention. Leading the charge is a twenty-something Mary Portas who has been brought in to revitalise the department store Harvey Nichols, at the time more likely to be associated with dowagers than daring designers. With departm…