Zitat des Tages von Natalie Massenet:
When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.
Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
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.
We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
I see ghosts.
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
Bling is good.
Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?
I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
I thrive on competition.
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.
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
As a woman, I feel it's important to support causes that are important to my core customer, who is also a woman, as well as causes that resonate with me personally.
Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
I'm the laziest person I know.
People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
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.
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.