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So Farfetch Away

An examination of the online luxury retailer’s headaches—past and future—as it navigates the purgatory of Coupang’s bridge loan.

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Farfetch C.E.O. José Neves is under the gun to restructure the business under Coupang’s guidance, and come out on the other side or risk losing it all. Photo: Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images
Lauren Sherman
January 15, 2024

Last week, executives from Coupang, the Seoul-based e-commerce company that bailed out Farfetch in December, paid a visit to the luxury marketplace’s headquarters in the glossy Bower building on Old Street, the onetime epicenter of London’s tech scene. Silicon Alley, it is not, and Silicon Valley, it never was. At one point, though, when Google’s British headquarters were also on the traffic circle, across the way from Farfetch, they called it the Silicon Roundabout.