Mary Portas: On Style

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Mary Portas: On Style: All Change: from fast fashion to rental with Jane Shepherdson, talking tights with Tahlia Gray, and the home office.

All Change: from fast fashion to rental with Jane Shepherdson, talking tights with Tahlia Gray, and the home office.

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Mary Portas explores what style means to us and the way we live today.

How did the past year change how we shopped and lived? Mary Portas looks at just a few of the changes to our high streets and homes over the past 12 months.

Sometimes trends emerge slowly, and sometimes they arrive with a bang. This week Mary Portas examines just a few of the ways the events of the past year have impacted the way we dress, shop and live. We look at our high streets;  how they adapted, who thrived - and who didn't. In a year when we were all forced to slow down and think, how did our relationship to fast fashion fare? Did 2020 make ethical consumers of us, and will those habits stay?

How did staying home change what our homes meant to us and what we needed from them? We look at designing a home office that makes it feel like you are working from home, rather than living at work. And what do we need from a sofa today? We hear from made.com design director Ruth Wassermann, and from Sonia Solicari from The Museum of the Home.

As the woman who made Topshop the coolest shop on the planet, Jane Shepherdson's name was once synonymous with the high street. We find out we she thinks the future is rental, not retail. 

And we meet one entrepreneur who couldn't wait for change, and created it herself. Tahlia Gray could never find tights that matched her skin tone, which led her to found Sheer Chemistry tights for women of colour.

Presenter: Mary Portas
Producer: Jessica Treen

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