My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

I see ghosts.

When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

I'm the laziest person I know.

I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.

Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.

It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.

You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more.

Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.