Tamara Mellon
Tamara Mellon
Tamara Mellon, OBEis the former chief creative officer and co-founder of Jimmy Choo, a luxury brand of shoes, handbags and accessories. She stepped down from the brand in November 2011 after its acquisition by Labelux...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth7 July 1967
hate i-hate
What I hate is leather leggings and an ankle boot. I hate the line.
art awful good sit
When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
women work
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
thinking people
You never know. Down the road you can do a lot of product categories. But I think you really have to build your core first and for people to know you and respect you for that.
moving energy moments
There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.
not-ready direct jimmy
I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.
jimmy
I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.
moving-forward feelings together
I had to put the company through a reorg, raise a new round of financing, and sort of press the restart button. But my feeling was that I wasn't going to be bullied. I wasn't going to let them take me down. I had to pull myself together and move forward.
sweet revenge winter
I wear Sweet Revenge, the legging boots, a lot particularly in the winter.
winter office
Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear.
important building
I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.
focused
The next few years is really going to be focused on shoes.
thinking interesting kind
The city [ LA] is kind of going through an interesting transition; sort of renaissance time where there is so much going on here. I think it's really exciting to be here.
resilience passionate
It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.