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If Mary Portas is so knowledgable about fashion why does she...

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 13:53

have a stylist on 'Mary Queen Of Shops'? I like her and want her to be able to dress herself. I can. And nobody laughs so it can be that hard.

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Fimbo · 18/07/2008 13:56

Bet Gok's got one as well.

If Nicky H-J has one they should be sacked.

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 13:58

Gok needs to step way from the deep v-neck. Some bloke on 'Location..' kept wearing one this week.

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yorkshirepudding · 18/07/2008 13:59

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 14:02

I like her hair.

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Fimbo · 18/07/2008 14:03

She's the spit of my hairdresser.

yorkshirepudding · 18/07/2008 14:05

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dexter73 · 18/07/2008 16:01

Perhaps she is so busy that she doesn't have time to go shopping herself so she gets someone else to do it for her!

mazzystar · 18/07/2008 16:15

I like what she wears
It's risky but stylish
I quite like it when people dress in something a bit ugly and odd but generally pull it off
N H-J however is the definition of unstylishness imo

Collision · 18/07/2008 16:16

She did say the other week that she hates shopping for clothes!

FluffyMummy123 · 18/07/2008 16:16

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Sunshinemummy · 18/07/2008 16:19

I think she's v. stylish and her partner is Grazia's Fashion Features Editor so wouold imagine they are stylish together.

Fimbo · 18/07/2008 16:30

Wot Paula Reed?

renaldo · 18/07/2008 16:30

I love Mary's hair - have been inspired to have mine cut this week but sadly dont look at all like her..

Sunshinemummy · 18/07/2008 16:35

No she's called Melanie Rickey - maybe I've got her job title wrong but she's definitely a Grazia fashion person.

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:01

I told my mum Mary liked the ladies, but she said she was divorced with DCs. So does she like ladies now?

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FluffyMummy123 · 18/07/2008 17:02

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ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:02

I like everything about her. Just everything. She should have a stylist, she deserves one.

ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:03

I'd like to be her actually. I'd like to say 'this is a business, what's your fashion story?' a lot. And wear those necklaces and white shirts with good cuffs.

nailpolish · 18/07/2008 17:05

well i think Mary knows about fashion - she knows whats in fashion and what will sell - its her job - does NOT mean she likes these fashionable clothes - she prefers to wears whats off the market and M&Co

i know all about my job doesnt mean i ever apply it in RL

ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:07

No, no. She knows what is 'on trend'.

[swoon]

FluffyMummy123 · 18/07/2008 17:08

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cocolepew · 18/07/2008 17:09

Oh good. I have a teeny crush on her. Maybe I'm in with a chance.

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ahundredtimes · 18/07/2008 17:09

God she's great.

I want to go to that shop in Paris she took that couple to. The one with the horrid man and the woman who went to get her hair done, and then surely, surely, ditched him months later.

Fimbo · 18/07/2008 17:10

I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the phrase "on trend".

Gah it like fingers down a chalkboard.