Natalie Massenet Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Natalie Massenet:
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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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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I thrive on competition.
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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.
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The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
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I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
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I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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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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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.
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Bling is good.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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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.
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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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Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
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I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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The fashion cycle is outdated.
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I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
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Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
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You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
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Women just love to shop.
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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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.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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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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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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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.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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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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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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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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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.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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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.
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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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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?
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You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I'm the laziest person I know.
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
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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.
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Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
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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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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more.
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When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
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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.'
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.
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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 see ghosts.
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Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
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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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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
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The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.
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My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
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Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
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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.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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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.
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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.
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If you want success, be unique.
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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.
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