Stenbeck previously chaired the Zalando board from 2014 to 2016, when she was replaced by Lothar Lanz, former finance chief of German media firm Axel Springer.

Zalando also said the supervisory board had nominated Kelly Bennett, outgoing chief marketing at Netflix, to join the board, along with Mariella Roehm-Kottmann, head of corporate accounting at ZF Friedrichshafen.

(Reporting by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Riham Alkousaa)