But that is unlikely to have prepared the fashion industry for its brutal dissection by ‘Mary Queen of Shops’. Since then, Portas has found new love with a woman whose identity she has not disclosed. Mary Portas, an English retail consultant and broadcaster, has given a withering verdict on the state of the fashion industry‘She’s tiny. Where Wintour leads, all others follow, argues Portas, 65, explaining that distorted thinking has influenced ‘all the catwalks’. She tells me at an awards show in Mayfair: ‘It’s the people that comment on my feet online that I find disturbing.

Source: Daily Mail April 04, 2026 17:11 UTC