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    A FASHIONABLE ENTRANCE

    Nov 19, 2018 5 minutes
    BY AMY FARLEY
    PHOTOGRAPH BY
    JAMES HARTLEY

    IN SEPTEMBER, A DECADE AFTER HE BEGAN KNITTING TOGETHER an online marketplace for independent boutiques across the globe, Farfetch founder and CEO José Neves took the company public. It’s now worth more than $7 billion and encompasses the original platform (which sells items from more than 980 stores and brands), white-label e-commerce services for designers such as Thom Browne and Derek Lam, and even physical retail.

    You launched Farfetch two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008. What was it like to debut a company that championed luxury fashion at such a moment?

    Starting a company is already scary. Starting a company in the middle of a financial storm was terrifying. There was this fear of Armageddon in the

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