Natalie Massenet Quotes
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It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
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Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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Dear London, 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. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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I see ghosts.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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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.
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.