Mary Portas 6th most influential person in fashion. Portas' first book, "Windows – the Art of Retail Display", was published in five languages by Thames & Hudson. Her second book, "How to Shop with Mary, Queen of Shops", was published by BBC Books in 2007 to accompany the television series. The book was co-authored by Peter Cross, Josh Sims and Melanie Rickey. Her third book, "Mary Portas, Shop Girl, a memoir", was published by Doubleday in 2015. Since 2005, Mary has written a weekly column "Shop!", for the "Daily Telegraph" magazine, reviewing shops across the country. She started writing the column in
Mary (1985 TV series) Mary (1985 TV series) Mary is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from December 11, 1985, to April 8, 1986. The series stars Mary Tyler Moore in her return to series television after an absence of over six years, during which time she appeared on Broadway in "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" and in the dramatic film "Ordinary People". After "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", her subsequent ventures into series television on the variety shows "Mary" (1978) and "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour" (1979) had been short-running ratings disasters, and Moore decided to return to the sitcom format which