Tamara Mellon

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What could be more expensive and more unnecessary than $400 Jimmy Choo for Hunter faux crocodile rainboots? Jimmy Choo embellished Uggs. Tamara Mellon told WWD, “Ugg Australia is the only other footwear I have in my wardrobe,” so naturally, she’d team up with Ugg to design a limited edition collection of five different sheepskin boots [...]

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Shoot for Choos

In conjunction with the launch of the the Project PEP collection we told you about back in June, Jimmy Choo and the Elton John AIDS Foundation are holding a photo competition open to all of you. The theme of the photos should be “You, Your Shoes, and 72″ (and no you don’t have to use [...]

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1. Nina, can you hear me? 2. Lifetime, you’re kidding about those “most talked about season” commercials, yes? 3. As far as bridal challenges go, could you have picked a worse week editorially? Nope! 4. The rest of you also thought Tamara was going to be a bigger bitch, right? 5. Would Anja have totally [...]

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At the end of August, we wrote an Adventures in Copyright begging Alexander McQueen to do something about Steve Madden’s blatant copies. Some of you agreed, one commenter asked, “Do you think McQueen cares this much?” To which of course we’d heartily answer yes. So you can imagine, or try to, how high we jumped [...]

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I wear out my shoes like nobody’s business. This is the curse of New York. You don’t need a car, but you’ll spend a gazillion dollars at Shoe Service Plus, constantly fixing the soles and the taps on the heels that you already spent a chunk of a paycheck on. And then there comes a [...]

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Jimmy Choo’s next up for H&M. Tamara Mellon is designing shoes and bags for the Swedish mega-store, as well as a full women’s collection for the November launch. The clothing, however, is meant to complement the accessories, not the other way around. They’ll also do a full range for men. The whole things sounds kind [...]

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YSL’s launching a “new vintage” capsule collection at Barneys next month. The clothes will be made from fabric recycled from the YSL archives and built into some of their most memorable designs. Does that mean safari jackets made from Yves’ original left over fabrics or a reconstructed le smoking jacket made from pieces he actually [...]

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We think Revlon might be trying to revamp its image. Not only did they bring on Gucci Westman, former head artistic Lancome honcho famous for her Fashion Week work, earlier this year, but now they’ve brought on Tamara Mellon to the Board of Directors. The Jimmy Choo founder said she’s happy to leverage her “consumer [...]

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