Maria has 15 years' experience in buying for various department stores and selecting stock from more than 300 brands including Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Celine, Fendi, VICTORIA BECKHAM, Sandro, Maje, and LA PERLA.

She also introduced new names and placed them under consultancy at Selfridges, NET-A-PORTER, MODA OPERANDI, Harvey Nichols, SAKS FIFTH AVENUE, Matchesfashion.com, FWRD, BERGDORF GOODMAN and others.

Maria is skilled in analysing global shifts in consumer behaviour, and this has helped her build her own lecture course about distribution development for Fashion Factory, Moscow. She was a WGSN report contributor and runs her own e-commerce business.

MARIA VINOKUROVA

Buying & fashion retail analysis