LONDON — Stephanie Phair, finest identified to the style business for her function because the chair of the British Trend Council between 2018 and 2022, has been named a senior adviser at L Catterton, the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-backed personal fairness agency.
On this function, Phair will apply her working experience and data throughout shopper classes to help L Catterton’s portfolio corporations globally, the agency mentioned.
Phair, who attended the Edeline Lee spring 2026 trend present final weekend in London, most lately served because the group president of Farfetch and government chair of New Guards Group till Might 2024.
She made her first foray into e-commerce in 2005 with Portero, the pre-owned luxurious market. She was later named president of The Outnet, which she launched in 2009, and he or she additionally sat on the manager board of Internet-a-porter Group from 2009 to 2015.
Earlier in her profession she held roles in communications, advertising and marketing, and enterprise improvement and labored at American Vogue on initiatives such because the launch of the CFDA/Vogue Trend Fund and the annual Metropolitan Costume Institute Gala.
In 2018, she succeeded Natalie Massenet as chair of the BFC. Throughout her tenure she labored carefully with former BFC chief government officer Caroline Rush serving to the British trend sector navigate Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic.
She was acknowledged with the OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, within the Queen’s Birthday Honours Checklist, for companies to trend and expertise, in 2022.
Phair has been an adviser for enterprise capital agency Felix Capital since 2016, and he or she served on the board Moncler between 2016 and 2022.
This previous January, she additionally took up the function of government chairman at Dynamics Invisible, a model consultancy agency based by Oli Walsh with shoppers together with Phoebe Philo, Idea, Hole, Past Yoga and Nike.
