Tamara Mellon Sells All Of Her Shares Leaves Jimmy Choo For Good

The co-founder and director of luxury accessories brand Jimmy Choo is to stand down from her role with immediate effect.

Tamara Mellon's departure, announced yesterday, comes five months after she made $85million from the $525.5million sale of the business.

Although the reasons behind the departure of the two are as yet unknown, Labelux said that the pair left amicably .

Jimmy Choo Founder Wants To Buy His Brand Back

Jimmy Choo and Tamara Mellon founded JC in 1996 with a $240,000 loan from Mellon’s father. TowerBrook Capital Partners is currently the majority stakeholder — Mellon still owns 15% of the biz, while Choo got rid of his stake a decade ago. The company has grown exponentially in the 15 years since its inception, now boasting 100 stores in 32 countries. With TowerBrook Capital Partners looking to sell, Choo is interested in buying his stake back, offering 800 million.  

Tamara Mellon At The Jimmy Choo Fragrance Launch Saks Fifth Avenue

Chief Creative Officer & co-founder of Jimmy Choo Tamara Mellon attends the Jimmy Choo Fragrance launch at Saks Fifth Avenue on February 9, 2011 in New York City.

Tory Burch Ex Public Relations Resigns And Heads to Jimmy Choo

 John Cross, formerly PR consultant at Tory Burch, has been named senior director of PR at Jimmy Choo. 


Chopin Rabin, formerly director of corporate communications at Calvin Klein, has been named director of global communications at NARS. 

Jimmy Choo Founder Tamara Mellon Cast Herself In The Jimmy Choo Fragrance Ad

Retailing for $95, "Jimmy Choo" the perfume features notes of exotic tiger orchid, sweet toffee and Indonesian patchouli, mixed with green top notes.

Jimmy Choo Celebrates 15th Annivesary With Sparkling Ad Campaign

To celebrate Jimmy Choo 15 anniversary founder and chief creative officer Tamara Mellon is launching an updated collection of the brand’s signature jeweled heels, tapping famed photographer Marilyn Minter to create a striking ad campaign for the vintage-inspired shoes. “I wanted to create a modern glamour that stands for the style and imagination of Jimmy Choo,” said Mellon in a statement. “I was inspired by vintage jewelery to add sparkling and luminous details to iconic Jimmy Choo shapes." 

Jimmy Choo's Founder Tamara Mellon Has Been Appointed UK Business Ambassador

Tamara Mellon has been made a UK business ambassadors by David Cameron. She will be among 32 newly appointed ambassadors who will each use their international contacts to help promote UK business overseas.

According to the BBC, ambassadors are expected to hold government-requested meetings, to brief UK ministers on business priorities and to contribute to government discussions with world leaders. Other recruits include former Lloyds boss Sir Victor Blank and Brent Hoberman.

Under The Radar: Diane Von Furstenberg To Launch Signature Fragrance This Fall And Jimmy Choo To Release New Fragrance November 2010

 Diane von Furstenberg has signed a deal with ID Beauty to launch a beauty line, starting with a women’s fragrance this fall. Diane is no stranger to the beauty world, she launched a scent called Tatiana, plus a make-up collection back in the seventies but sold it in 1983. For her new and improved line she had her eye on one beauty expert to work with her, Chantal Roos, the former president of YSL Beaute. No date has been given for debut. 


My boss got a invite for Jimmy Choo fragrance preview and it said the following:
“It has always been my vision to fully accessorize the woman, and fragrance is an integral part of the modern wardrobe. I look forward to bringing this important aspect of my vision to life.”

Photos: Tamara Mellon New York City Apartment And Interview With Harper's Bazaar

Tamara's Interview
This is Mellon's new New York life, and this is her new New York pad. Choosing the idyllic neighborhood in which she lives was a deliberate move, both geographically and emotionally. Put delicately, Mellon's past few years have not been a walk in Central Park; put bluntly, after her father's death, a very public divorce, and most recently a trip to court to sue her own mother (Mellon admits that she is estranged from her family), she was ready for a change of pace.

Last year was the best and worst year of my life, a breakthrough year for me," Mellon explains. "I've moved here and managed to clear up a lot of the wreckage. I feel like I've arrived in New York with a clean slate, and I have a whole new set of challenges ahead of me. And I find that invigorating."

"I've actually been told, when someone sits and spends time with me, that I'm not the person they thought I would be," she says. She adds that there is still a stigma to a woman who is successful in business. "If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman. Of course, there have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate — but usually that's because a man has underestimated me." She smiles and lets out that belly laugh. "But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person." Read More.

Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon About To Sell The Company

Tamara Melon is understood to be appointing financial advisors to sell her 15% percent portion of Jimmy Choo. Tamara 15 % share is estimated to be worth £500 million, or roughly $797 million, the Daily Mail reports. 

Mellon reportedly owns a fifth of the fashion group, which was formed when the 43-year-old former fashion editor invested in Malaysian cobbler Jimmy Choo.

Jimmy Choo Trainers LookBook

Avaliable May 2010 $600 usd. To join waiting list email Trainers@jimmychoo.com. To view more of the collection visit Jimmychoo.com.

Jimmy Choo Founder Tamara Mellon Goes Nude For Interview Magazine

Tamara Mellon tells Interview Magazine:

"Journalists normally come in with a preconceived idea about what I’m like. They have all these assumptions that aren’t accurate. They want this fantasy of this sort of tough businesswoman, red-carpet thing. That’s the story they want."

JOHNSON-HILL: You look stunning. I couldn’t turn my eyes away—I think I’ve re-looked at it about five times.

TAMARA MELLON: Oh, my god! I mean, it’s nude but it’s chic. But with that reaction, okay . . . I wonder what they’ll say at the next board meeting.

JOHNSON-HILL: What was your motivation to do all that back then?

TAMARA MELLON: Independence.

JOHNSON-HILL: Independence from what?

TAMARA MELLON: Independence from a very dysfunctional family.

JOHNSON-HILL: So you were totally driven by creating something that would become your own and be your baby.

TAMARA MELLON: Yes, it was almost like buying my freedom.

JOHNSON-HILL: Well, what motivates you now?

TAMARA MELLON: There were two things that motivated me then: independence, and passion about what I was doing. And those are still the things that motivate me now. I still have that passion for creating a product. And I will never be dependent on a man. I will never be dependent on a husband or a boyfriend or a father. That’s one thing that’s really important to me.

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Yves Saint Laurent Outlet Is Now Open

A new Yves Saint Laurent outlet has just opened its doors at Bicester Village near Oxford, UK. The shop stocks men's and women's collections, as well as accessories, shoes, and handbags. Bicester Village is also home to designer outlets including: Dior, Roberto Cavalli, Dolce & Gabbana, Luella, Gucci, Reiss, Versace, Superdry, Myla, L.K. Bennett, Karen Millen, Jimmy Choo, Joseph, and Alexander McQueen.

Jimmy Choo's Tamara Melon Shows Off Her New L Shape Closet To The WSJ

Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon, below, likes pairing her fringed bag with yellow shoes, below, for a hard-edged, bohemian look.

Her new closet, an L-shaped space about 15 by 23 feet at its widest, uses angled shelves that provide more visibility to her hundreds of shoes, which sit two pairs deep. (Roughly half of Ms. Mellon's shoes are stored elsewhere.) The blond wood shelves and hanging bars allow nearly everything to be seen, an arrangement she finds more efficient. "My big issue in life is time. I never have enough," said Ms. Mellon, 42. The back of the closet is reserved for jeans and a few pairs of sneakers, below.

Jimmy Choo To Launch An Affordable Range Of Sneakers

Jimmy Choo's pre-fall 2010 collection has the addition of 8 sneakers. The low (£295) and high-top (£395) suede and snake trainers bring Choo's reputation for staggering heights back down to earth. The Sneakers will be available on www.jimmychoo.com September 2010.

Jimmy Choo And Ugg Australia To Collaborate On A Sheepskin Boot

Jimmy Choo and Ugg Australia announced a collaboration for a limited-edition co-branded women's sheepskin footwear products, which will be available in stores this October 2010.

The boots will be, based on the traditional Ugg "with design details that embody the spirit of the Jimmy Choo brand," will come in five styles in a variety of colors. They will be available in limited distribution at Jimmy Choo and Ugg stores (where they will retail between $595-$795), as well as select department and specialty stores, jimmychoo.com, and uggaustralia.com. This sound like it maybe a match made in heaven. Can't wait to view the collection.

Jimmy Choo Founder Tamara Mellon Wins The Lawsuit Against Her Mother

The legal case between Tamara Mellon and her mother has been settled, after a legal battle that has been ongoing since 2008. The iconic shoe guru and founder of Jimmy Choo received $6 million from 70-year-old Ann Yeardye her mother, a former Chanel model, after the two camps came to a settlement last week.

The pair clashed after Tamara Mellon, who made $100 million from her footwear empire, sold the shoe label to an investment group; but an accounting error meant some shares were mistakenly transferred to a family account run by Mrs Yeardye. Yeardye allegedly refused to return them, calling the claims that a mistake had been made "erroneous'' and launching a counter complaint against her daughter for fraud and breach of contract.

Jimmy Choo Founder Tamara Mellon Helps Aids Victims With Elton John

On November 14, Tamara Mellon will launch her collaboration with H&M. She has also been working on a programme to fund a rape crisis centre in South Africa in partnership with the Elton John Aids Foundation. A limited-edition collection of accessories launching Project PEP, which stands for “post-exposure prophylaxis” drugs, hits the shelves tomorrow.

A quarter of the net sales from the collection will fund Project PEP at the Simelela centre in Cape Town, where rape victims have been exposed to the HIV virus. The PEP anti-retroviral drugs, if taken within 72 hours of exposure, reduce the chance of contracting the virus by 79 per cent. The British launch of Project PEP takes place tomorrow, jimmychoo.com. 

Jimmy Choo Founder Tamara Mellon Suit Aganist Her Mother Dismissed

 

Tamara Mellon founder of the iconic Jimmy Choo empire, had a $10 million dollar lawsuit against her mother, a former Chanel model, Ann Yeardye. Radaronline.com is reporting that the case was dismissed last week due to insufficient evidence (sure LOL).  Mellon filed the lawsuit against her mom in January 2008 for breach of contract in the sale of the company when it was sold in 2004.  Relations between mother and daughter are reported to be very frosty since the sale of the company. -Radaronline

Jimmy Choo And H&M Lookbook

The official Jimmy Choo for H&M look book has finally been released. The items made by the London-based accessory designer includes shoes, bags, jewelry and clothes—for both women and men. The collection will reach select stores worldwide on November 14th.