A Jewish designer who used to work for Marks & Spencer made headlines after giving the store’s board of directors a dressing down over their “crude and cheap designs”.
Finchley Reform member Muriel Conway, 87, told the M&S management “I could weep when I see what’s in stores today”, at the annual shareholders meeting.
Now retired Mrs Conway designed clothes for the company from the mid-1970s until the late 1990s. She said she doesn’t always attend the annual meeting but “got more and more incensed at the waste of space in M&S. The prints, colours - everything is cheap and crude. Nothing fits.”
She added: “There used to be wonderful clothes and now I can’t find anything I like. I felt it was time someone spoke up.”
