Paperback: 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 - worth some £220 million. 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.
The Jimmy Choo Story (2010) was first published in Great Britain in 2009 as The Towering World of Jimmy Choo.
About the authors: Lauren Goldstein Crowe has covered the fashion and luxury goods industries as a Senior Writer at Time magazine in London, at Fortune magazine in New York, and as a writer of freelance articles for Paris Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the New York Times, British Vogue, the Financial Times and the Times, and has appeared as a fashion expert on CNN and Bloomberg television. Crowe has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and undergraduate degrees in English and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She wears mostly Manolo Blahnik shoes.
Sagra Maceira de Rosen is currently a founding partner in Hemisphere One Partners, a recently established private equity firm that invests in retail and luxury brands, and was previously a high ranked equity analyst at JP Morgan in London and the head of its Global Luxury Goods and Retail research team. Sagra has been a speaker at several luxury goods conferences and has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and a university degree in business administration from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She mostly wears Jimmy Choo shoes.
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