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
belief failure hustle means option positive work
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
inspiration people advice
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
dad mountain taught
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
entrepreneur
Im an accidental entrepreneur.
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.
school paris catholic
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
british
I just wear what I like and lots of it is British,
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.
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.
tables want
Be the smartest at the table and you can wear whatever you want.
believe different moments
Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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.
long doers problem
Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.
country fashion people
British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.