Coleen Rooney: How a football WAG went from fashion ingenue to international style icon

Coleen Rooney at Aintree in 2007. Photo: Christopher Furlong

Lisa Armstrong
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Back in 2003, a 17-year-old Coleen McLoughlin was spotted out and about in her hometown of Liverpool with a distinctive leopard-print carrier bag bearing the name Cricket. A future fashion star was duly anointed.

Actually in those early days, Coleen, childhood sweetheart since the age of 12 of Wayne Rooney, was as much excoriated as she was celebrated, caught in the crossfire of snobbery and the North's tribal loyalties.