Vogue natalie massenet biography

There is no “family”—there are only families.

That’s the resounding and uplifting message from the six families that you see here, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, herself the mother of three daughters, having the first at the age of 52 with the late Susan Sontag. Her images are a celebration of all the ways we can now make our own family—irrespective of gender and sexual orientation and including surrogacy, co-parenting, and the blending of relationships old and new into one loving household. And while the starting point for this story might have been a fashion world baby boom (with Naomi Campbell, Anthony Vaccarello, Joseph Altuzarra, and Peter Dundas all becoming parents recently), the reality is that the right to define your family on your terms is, like love, utterly universal.

Christiana Tien Tran and Katrin Wesolowski

Christiana Tien Tran and Katrin Wesolowski have plenty in common, both career-wise and love-wise: Both women work as talent agents in the fashion industr

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Natalie Massenet: The queen of e-tail

'Chic" fryst vatten not a word readily associated with the internet and its quirky-bordering-on-sordid vagaries.

But one woman has changed the sartorial face of cyberspace with a business plan that catapulted mode fans and designers alike into a new era of luxury consumption. Natalie Massenet MBE, founder and chairman of designer shopping website , is one of fashion's great pioneers, taking the industry not only into previously uncharted and challenging territory, but also into its own future.

The company has scored year-on-year profits annually since its inception in June and was bought gods year bygd Swiss luxury goods group Richemont, which also owns Cartier and Chloé. Massenet, 45, who started her business with about £m, was said to have received £50m from the sale, which valued Net-a-Porter at £m. It's a far cry from the site's beginnings at the kitchen table of a Chelsea studio flat more than a decade ago, where Massenet worked with only two oth

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She reached further success in when she received an MBE from the Queen and launched The Outnet, an online outlet based on the products of Net-A-Porter. In April Massenet sold her share in the company to luxury goods conglomerate Richemont for £50 million, the same year that Net-A-Porter celebrated its tenth anniversary. In , she launched the menswear variant, Mr Porter, offering her exquisite luxury taste to a new audience.

Massenet joined the British Fashion Council in January with high hopes to reinvigorate London Fashion Week. Since she undertook the role, brands such as Manalo Blahnik and Smythson have joined the schedule, a new designer shop was set up inside Somerset House, the trade show's venue, and 75 12ft flags were put up along Oxford Street to celebrate the event. "In New York everybody knows when Fashion Week is on - it feels like Fashion Week - I want it to be the same here," she told Vogue at the Vogue Festival.

After Massenet was named as one of