{"id":160097,"date":"2018-06-05T06:14:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:52:59","slug":"general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane\/","title":{"rendered":"General Atlantic invests in French online brand S\u00e9zane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York-based private equity house <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalatlantic.com\/portfolio-company\/sezane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General Atlantic<\/a> has taken a stake in French online fashion brand\u00a0S\u00e9zane, which last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/\/sezane-to-open-london-store-following-successful-pop-up-trial\/\">revealed its plans to open a permanent store in London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sezane.com\">S\u00e9zane<\/a> was founded in 2013 by entrepreneur Morgane S\u00e9zalory and General Atlantic is believed to have<strong> picked up its 45% stake from\u00a0Summit Partners and other investors<\/strong>. Two of General Atlantic's executives Gabriel Caillaux and Melis Kahya have taken seats on the fashion brand's board.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23300\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23300\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/morgane-sezalory-sezane-3-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Sezane\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sezane founder Morgane Sezalory<\/p><\/div>\n<p>General Atlantic has a diverse portfolio of investments including some other fashion interests including stakes in <strong>Tory Burch, Zimmerman and Grupo Axo,<\/strong> which owns and operates Mexico's leading off-price fashion retailer\u00a0Promoda.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0S\u00e9zane is still a relatively small business, it is growing at a rapid rate. It initially launched online only and fuelled demand for its limited edition monthly collections through social media. It offers <strong>a full range of ready-to-wear from separates to dresses, footwear and accessories<\/strong>, as well as lifestyle products which are accessibly priced (dresses range in price from around \u00a3120 to \u00a3170).<\/p>\n<p>It went on to open a store\/showroom in Paris called L'Appartement, along with a concession in Paris' high-end department store Le Bon March\u00e9. Last year it opened a store in New York and it has just <strong>signed a 10-year lease on a store in London's Notting Hill<\/strong> having held a London pop-up on South Molton Street in Mayfair just before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9zane also has a menswear brand Octobre Editions, which it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/\/sezane-moves-menswear-octobre-editions\/\">launched in 2016<\/a>, although it does not yet ship globally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":132229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10585,6,10494,12973],"tags":[9816,13145,9858,11455,9857,10601],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>General Atlantic invests in French online brand S\u00e9zane - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New York-based private equity house General Atlantic has taken a stake in French online fashion brand\u00a0S\u00e9zane, which last week revealed its plans to open a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"General Atlantic invests in French online brand S\u00e9zane - TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New York-based private equity house General Atlantic has taken a stake in French online fashion brand\u00a0S\u00e9zane, which last week revealed its plans to open a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theindustryfashion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-05T06:14:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-12T13:52:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-05-at-07.10.51.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1349\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"702\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lauretta Roberts\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89\"},\"headline\":\"General Atlantic invests in French online brand S\u00e9zane\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-05T06:14:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-12T13:52:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/general-atlantic-invests-in-french-online-brand-sezane\/\"},\"wordCount\":274,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"ecommerce\",\"General Atlantic\",\"Morgane Sezalory\",\"Private Equity\",\"Sezane\",\"Start-ups\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Finance\",\"News &amp; 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