Product Description

The Towering World of Jimmy Choo examines the world's seemingly insatiable appetite for luxury goods by telling the behind-the-scenes tale of one of the most talked-about brands of our age. Jimmy Choo was a London shoemaker with clients including Princess Diana when Tamara Yeardye, a London society girl, convinced him to launch a factory-produced luxury shoe line. Twelve years later, Jimmy Choo is a household name, and Tamara still presides over what is now one of the most successful luxury brands in the world - one worth some GBP220 million. In 2008 she herself was on the Sunday Times Rich List. She has become one of the best-known business women in the country, but along the way she was tested at every turn. The story of how the Jimmy Choo brand got to where it is today is one of love, controversy, fashion, finance, celebrity, power, intrigue and, above all, intense ambition. Compelling to followers of both fashion and business, and written with great panache and detailed insider knowledge, The Towering World of Jimmy Choo takes the reader into a complex and mysterious arena full of larger-than-life characters, one whose inner workings are rarely glimpsed by the world at large.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41492 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
`Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosen have taken a £500 stiletto and used it to burst the bubble of hot air and secrecy that surrounds the business of selling luxury goods'
--Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Review
"Fun and powerful...like a great pair of heels!!!"

Review
"A must read for anyone remotely involved in the
fashion industry. A true page-turner."

Customer Reviews

Name dropping rather than show stopping!
This book is ok if you're interested in the business side of luxury brands however there isn't much in the way of first hand accounts, quotes from Tamara and Jimmy are few and far between.

The story also goes wildly off on a tangent about the M&A market post 9/11 which is distracting and unnessary.

Good Interesting Read
If you interested in fashion or business then this will be a good enjoyable read for you. Also good for anyone interested in the Jimmy Choo brand.