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Net-A-Porter founder leaves abruptly ahead of merger

September 3, 2015 admin 153-09-million, autumn, collections, italy, julie-gordon, london, online-fashion, planned-merger, school, silvia-aloisi, stephen-harper, the-completion, the-issues, under-fire, yoox-regarded

By Astrid Wendlandt and Silvia Aloisi PARIS/MILAN (Reuters) – Natalie Massenet, founder and executive chairman of online fashion group Net-A-Porter, said on Thursday it was the right time to leave after she resigned abruptly ahead of the completion of a planned merger with Italy's Yoox. Regarded as the fashion visionary of the soon-to-be-combined business, she was to become its executive chairman and oversee editorial content, one of Net-A-Porter's main strengths

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Net-A-Porter founder quits, will not be on merged group’s board

September 2, 2015 admin 2015-show, chris-pirillo, collections, conflict, divided-cities, growing, iphone, merged, series-as-seen, the-costume, the-fashion, yoox-massenet

MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) – Natalie Massenet, founder and executive chairman of online fashion group Net-A-Porter (NAP) abruptly resigned on Wednesday ahead of its planned acquisition by Italy's Yoox. Massenet, regarded as the fashion visionary of the soon-to-be-merged business, was to become its executive chairman and oversee its editorial content, one of NAP's main strengths

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Young and quirky YouTube stars lift traditional book publishers

September 2, 2015 creative collections, connor, connor-franta, divided-cities, franta, growing, invented, merged, million-books, the-costume, videos, young-readers

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Videos like “Walking Around Naked” and “Apps That Need to Be Invented” made Connor Franta a star on YouTube. With that kind of appeal to young readers, Franta is part of a generation of YouTube stars giving a boost to the book publishing industry