In My Shoes, Tamara Mellon
In My Shoes, Tamara Mellon
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In My Shoes
A Memoir

Author: Tamara Mellon, William Patrick

Narrator: Polly Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/01/2013

Synopsis

A candid business narrative and memoir from the founder of Jimmy Choo
 
Tamara Mellon made a fortune building Jimmy Choo into a billion-dollar fashion brand. She became the prime minister's trade envoy and was honored by the Queen with the Order of the British Empire—yet it's her personal glamour that keeps her an object of global media fascination. Vogue photographed her wedding; Vanity Fair covered her divorce and the criminal trial that followed. Harper's Bazaar toured her London town house and her New York mansion, right down to the closets. And the Wall Street Journal hinted at the real red meat: the three private equity deals, the relentless battle between "the suits" and "the creatives," and Mellon's triumph against a brutally hostile takeover attempt.
 
In this candid memoir she shares the whole larger-than-life story, with genuinely shocking insider detail that has never been presented anywhere. From her troubled childhood to her time as a young editor at Vogue to her partnership with cobbler Jimmy Choo to her very public relationships, Mellon offers a gripping account of the episodes that have made her who she is today.
 
The result is a must read for entrepreneurs, fashionistas, and anyone who loves a juicy true story about sex, drugs, money, power, high heels, and overcoming adversity.

About The Author

Tamara Mellon is the founder and former CEO, and later the chief creative officer, of Jimmy Choo, which she led for fifteen years. Since selling her share of the company, she has focused on creating a new eponymous lifestyle brand to be launched in the fall of 2013. William Patrick has cowritten numerous memoirs, including Sidney Poitier’s no. 1 bestseller The Measure of a Man. Visit tamaramellon.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 21, 2013

Pooooooooooooor me. Poor little me. I am a pretty, smart girl, born into a world of priveledge. That's me being harsh. She obviously has major family problems and from her perspective, her mom does sound absolutely wacko. But there was A LOT of complaining in this book. Complain, name drop, woe is me......more

Goodreads review by Jane on December 11, 2013

4 ½ stars. A Memoir. Fascinating story. I felt good at the end, but I wanted pictures. This is the story of Tamara’s rise to fame (in the fashion world) and wealth. In much of the book I’m thinking “no, don’t do that” as she makes decisions that cause problems later. But the purpose of the book is to......more

Goodreads review by Temi on September 02, 2018

[URL not allowed]%D0%B1%D0%B8... Искам първо да започна с това, че съм огромна почитателка на „Сексът и градът“. Още когато тепърва го излъчваха, обожавах да гледам как Кара Брадшоу винаги се обличаше спрямо модните тенденции. Както може би знаете, това е сериала който направи Сара Джесика Па......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on March 23, 2014

The story of building the Jimmy Choo brand is interesting, and should be admired she started with 150,000 pounds, and sold it for 185 million. Tamara Mellon has built a relevant and compelling luxury brand that she was indeed pushed out of, which seems short sighted buy the company owners. All seeme......more

Goodreads review by Iliana on April 01, 2021

"Бизнес на високи токчета" От Тамара Мелън е автобиографична книга на създателката на обувната марка "Джими Чу", а именно Тамара Мелън. Животът й никога не е бил лесен, особено под опеката на властната й майка, "благодарение" на която Тамара страда от тежка депресия, безсъние, паник - атаки. В мемоар......more

Quotes

“When it comes to Tamara Mellon, you should never assume anything.”—The Financial Times 

“The Shoe Queen.”—Vogue
“A kind of Henry James heroine for the bling generation.”—Vanity Fair
“A woman shaped by hardship and scandal.”—The Cut
“Tamara is an incredible businesswoman.”—Tory Burch as quoted by the New York Times
“The Jimmy Choo brand has gone on to infiltrate popular culture on a mass scale, becoming synonymous with a kind of feminine luxury lifestyle that Mellon herself—strong, smart, independent, and glamorously larger than life—has come to personify.”—Interview Magazine

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