{"id":163712,"date":"2020-12-17T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T11:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:09:35","slug":"matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"MATCHESFASHION appoints Natalie Kingham to role of chief fashion officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATCHESFASHION has promoted Natalie Kingham to the<strong> newly created role of chief fashion officer<\/strong> after a decade of service at the London-based global luxury business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kingham, who was latterly<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0f<\/span>ashion &amp; buying director at MATCHESFASHION, has <strong>built up a reputation for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>nurturing young designers<\/strong> and turning them in to globally renowned names.<\/p>\n<p>This year she\u00a0<strong>drove the launch of The Innovators programme,<\/strong> which was designed to champion young design talent with a comprehensive package of practical support including mentorship, preferential business terms and global marketing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>She has also expanded the company\u2019s portfolio to include unique edits in homewares and lifestyle, vacation studio and fine jewellery.<\/p>\n<p>In her new role she will <strong>report into<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Elizabeth von der Goltz,<\/strong> who joins MATCHESFASHION from the YOOX NET-A-PORTER Group in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Kingham said of her appointment:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThroughout 2020 we have seen how our customers lifestyles have adapted to a changing world. As we move into 2021, I am<strong> looking forward to evolving MATCHESFASHION\u2019s proposition<\/strong> and continuing to showcase an innovative curation of designer talent.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MATCHESFASHION, which was founded as a single boutique in Wimbledon 30 years ago, has made a number of changes to its top team this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ajay Kavan joined the business from Amazon in February this year as CEO<\/strong> (he replaced Ulric Jerome who left in August 2019). In September Jason Weston joined as COO, also from Amazon, while Sean Glithero was appointed as CFO, having spent 11 years at Auto Trader Group.<\/p>\n<p>Last month it was announced that <strong>YNAP's global buying director Elizabeth von der Goltz would be joining as chief commercial officer,<\/strong> indirectly replacing commercial director\u00a0Lea Cranfield, who is returning to YNAP, where she had previously worked, as chief buying and merchandising officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":141713,"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":[9763,6,10494],"tags":[15957,21,14392,10023,10649,13449,10353],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MATCHESFASHION appoints Natalie Kingham to role of chief fashion officer - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MATCHESFASHION has promoted Natalie Kingham to the newly created role of chief fashion officer after a decade of service at the London-based global luxury\" \/>\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\/matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MATCHESFASHION appoints Natalie Kingham to role of chief fashion officer - TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MATCHESFASHION has promoted Natalie Kingham to the newly created role of chief fashion officer after a decade of service at the London-based global luxury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-12-17T11:55:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-06T12:09:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Natalie-Kingham-Fashion-Buying-Director-at-MATCHESFASHION.COM-By-Trent-McMinn.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"754\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"607\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\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\/matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lauretta Roberts\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89\"},\"headline\":\"MATCHESFASHION appoints Natalie Kingham to role of chief fashion officer\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-17T11:55:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-06T12:09:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/matchesfashion-appoints-natalie-kingham-to-role-of-chief-fashion-officer\/\"},\"wordCount\":292,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Ajay Kavan\",\"E-commerce\",\"Elizabeth von der Goltz\",\"Luxury\",\"Matchesfashion\",\"Natalie Kingham\",\"YOOX NET-A-PORTER Group\"],\"articleSection\":{\"0\":\"Fashion\",\"2\":\"News &amp; 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