Saturday Group's two Swedish founders, Jens Grede and Erik Torstensson met while working for Tyler Brûlé at
The Wallpaper* Group in London in the early 2000s., The set up a creative fashion agency, Saturday London, in 2003, with the backing of Mother Holdings. Grede and Torstensson then founded and invested in a number of businesses related to the fashion industry. In 2008, they established Saturday Group as a holding company for their investments and activities. In 2010, Grede and Torstensson worked with
Net-A-Porter to create Mr Porter, the online luxury menswear shopping website. The pair founded two magazines,
Man About Town and
INDUSTRIE, acting as Editors-in-Chief for both titles, and consulted for
Vogue and
GQ magazines, the
Gucci Group,
Richemont and
J Crew. In 2010 they co-founded Fashion Networks International in New York, a
next generation media company which published the blogs for fashion commentators, including Elin Kling and Derek Blasberg. The company was sold to
Conde Nast in 2012. Torstensson and Grede's latest venture is clothing line
Frame, which in 2014 is being stocked by
Barneys,
Lane Crawford,
Selfridges and
Nordstrom. As of 2014, companies in the Saturday Group are active in creative, digital, e-commerce, publicity, licensing, sales and distribution, talent brokering and brand management. Among their holdings are; the creative agency Wednesday, INDUSTRIE Magazine, Tomorrow, the global distribution company and Frame, a clothing brand based in Los Angeles, California. == References ==