Natalie Massenet
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Dame Natalie Sara Massenet (née Rooney; born 13 May 1965) is a fashion writer and former journalist who created the fashion web portal Net-a-Porter.
She served as the chairman of the British Fashion Council from 2013 to 2017.
She co-founded Imaginary Ventures and became non executive co-chairman at Farfetch in 2017, according to many as changing the way designer fashion is sold.
Background and early career
Massenet was born in Los Angeles, California on 13 May 1965, the daughter of American journalist-turned-film publicist Bob L. Rooney and Barbara Jones, a British model for Chanel, and film stand-in for Sophia Loren. She spent her early childhood in Paris, moving back to Los Angeles in 1976 with her father, after her parents divorced.
Her first job after graduating from high school was in a menswear shop in Los Angeles and Massenet then attended UCLA, studying English Literature. After graduating, she spent a year in Tokyo working as a fashion model and stylist. Other early jobs included working as a receptionist at Universal Studios and assisting at Italian magazine Moda, where she worked with the then-emerging photographer Mario Testino.
Massenet began her career as a fashion journalist at Women's Wear Daily (WWD) in 1993. She then moved on to Tatler in the UK, where she worked as assistant to Isabella Blow and her colleagues included Lucy Yeomans. She left to freelance in 1998.
Awards
- Massenet was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the fashion industry in 2009 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the fashion and retail industries.
- In 2013, Massenet was made a Woman of the Year by US Glamour magazine.
- In 2014, she was named as one of the 100 most influential people by Time.
- Between 2013 and 2017, she has been awarded a place in the BOF 500 list which is the professional index of the people shaping the $2.4 trillion fashion industry, hand-selected by the editors of The Business of Fashion, based on hundreds of nominations received from current BoF 500 members, extensive data analysis and research.