Natalie Massenet
Natalie Massenet
Dame Natalie Sara Massenet, DBEis a fashion entrepreneur and former journalist, who founded the designer fashion portal Net-a-Porter. Since 2013, she has been chairman of the British Fashion Council...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth13 May 1965
CountryUnited States of America
kids perfect way
There's no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn't a wrong way, either.
shopping clothes touching
Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.
opportunity marketing first-impression
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
attitude party negotiation
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
starting grows starting-a-business
Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
long doers problem
Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.
shoes ipads creating
Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.
tables want
Be the smartest at the table and you can wear whatever you want.
fashion moving past
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
years california literature
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
fashion thinking color
I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.
entrepreneur
Im an accidental entrepreneur.
dad mountain taught
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
decided
When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.