The retailer — which sells on WhatsApp, WeChat, Instagram and other social platforms — has doubled its revenues since the start of the pandemic. Now it’s betting on a new service that allows independent personal shoppers to use its technology.

During a blockbuster year for online sales, Farfetch surged ahead of rivals to position itself at the front of luxury’s e-commerce race. Can it spin the current momentum into sustainable — and profitable — growth and become the unrivalled platform for luxury fashion online?

“Marchetti has done something that, in the year 2000, appeared unlikely: he has succeeded in persuading executives in the luxury goods industry, many

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Little Luxuries: Designer Apparel for Children is the Next Big Thing (Forbes) "Move over fast fashion collaborations, another way haute designers

Dreaming of Clasps and Tassels (WSJ) "Handbag designer Anya Hindmarch designs in her sleep—literally. Some of her best-selling ideas come in the

Reinventing Savile Row (WWD) "Faced with constant pressure from the bottom end of the market, such as low-cost operations that claim to offer

Lunch with the FT: Phoebe Philo (FT) "Everyone was looking at me, and competition is fiercer because of what happened with the economy, but I also