Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.
— Natalie Massenet
I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
The fashion cycle is outdated.
Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.
The Internet is a gift to fashion.
Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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.
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.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
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.
When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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!
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.
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.
I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
Women just love to shop.
Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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.
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?'
Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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.
I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'
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.
I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
Anna Wintour has guided me.
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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.
My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.
I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
