Natalie Massenet

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Natalie Massenet (2011)

Dame Natalie Massenet DBE (born May 13, 1965 in Paris ) is the founder of Net-A-Porter , an internet retailer for designer clothing and accessories based in London.

Life

Natalie Massenet was born in 1966 to Barbara, a British model, and Bob Rooney, an American journalist. She grew up in Paris and Los Angeles . After graduating from high school, she studied literature at the University of California, Los Angeles , and then worked as an assistant director for low-budget films. From 1993 she worked for Women's Wear Daily , then for Tatler magazine in London. During this time her idea for an internet mail order company for designer clothing arose. In June 2000 she founded Net-A-Porter with the financial support of her husband . On April 1, 2010, she sold 18% of Net-A-Porter's shares to the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont for £ 50 million (just under € 61 million). In September 2015, Massenet sold its remaining NAP shares for about 136 million euros to the Italian fashion group Yoox SpA (new owner of NAP since March 2015) and then left the company. She then focused on her chairmanship of the British Fashion Council . In 2017 she then took on a role in the chairmanship of Farfetch.

She was married to Arnaud Massenet, a French hedge fund manager with whom she has two daughters, and lives in London. For her services to the British economy, she was accepted as a member of the Order of the British Empire in November 2009 . On December 31, 2015, she was ennobled as Dame Commander of the same order and has since carried the nobility title “ Lady ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Knights and Dames: MA – MIF at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  2. ↑ Alexandra Topping: Natalie Massenet sells Net-a-Porter stake to Richemont for £ 50m ; The Guardian, April 1, 2010; Retrieved May 1, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Natalie Massenet is One of the 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry in 2017 . In: The Business of Fashion . ( businessoffashion.com [accessed August 17, 2018]).
  4. ^ Founders of £ 350m fashion site announce they are to separate ; The Times, May 5, 2011; Retrieved November 29, 2014
  5. ↑ Natalie Massenet: Ker-ching - a fashion fortune in the bag ; ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Sunday Times, April 4, 2010; Retrieved May 1, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thesundaytimes.co.uk
  6. ↑ Lauren Milligan: Natalie Massenet MBE ; ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vogue.com, November 13, 2009; Retrieved May 1, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vogue.co.uk
  7. ↑ Natalie Massenet to be made a Dame in New Year's Honors List ; The Telegraph, December 30, 2015. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Massenet, Natalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris