Dame Natalie Massenet, DBE

Chairman, British Fashion Council

Though she stepped down in 2015 from online fashion portal Net-a-Porter, the company she founded, Natalie Massenet continues to exert great influence in her role as chairman of the British Fashion Council. In this five-year position, she oversees London Fashion Week and is responsible for the council's activities in promoting UK fashion overseas. Having begun her career as a stylist and fashion journalist, latterly at Tatler, Massenet founded Net-a-Porter in 2000, operating initially from her Chelsea flat. She sold it ten years later to Swiss company Richemont for an estimated £50 million, departing on the eve of its merger with online discounter Yoox last year. Described as resembling 'a lovechild of Vogue and Selfridges', the site spawned offshoots including The Outnet, Mr Porter and Net-a-Sporter.

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