![]() ![]() We want new things and we want them in season,” she says. “I guess you could say this is fast fashion for luxury. The knockoffs, of course, arrive much sooner. Most luxury brands still sell only four collections a year they’re shown months before they’re in stores. ![]() Mellon says the idea for her new line had been percolating while she was at Jimmy Choo: she will introduce new items every month, instead of a new collection every season. She named the boots Sweet Revenge they will sell for $1,995. Her black suede boots are thigh-high and, like all of the shoes in her collection, are made in the same Italian factories as Jimmy Choo stilettos. She’s wearing a deep blue wool skirt and vest with a black cashmere turtleneck from her label. Her hair is pulled back into a tight pony tail. Mellon is calm, almost still, and sits very straight with her hands in her lap. Louis Vuitton suitcases are open on the floor. On an afternoon in late September, she sits amid racks of sleek dresses, skirts and jackets in her Manhattan office as her staff prepare for fashion week in Paris. This autumn, Mellon, who’s 46, is launching her own line of clothes and shoes. “To me the truth is always the best way,” she says. It’s called In My Shoes and went on sale Tuesday. She left Jimmy Choo in 2011 with a reported $135 million and enough resentment to fill a book. She had night sweats and panic attacks and was always exhausted. She says she was unappreciated by executives at the company and exploited by the private equity investors who funded its expansion. It turns out, though, that for much of this time, Mellon felt aggrieved. Her 2000 wedding to Matthew Mellon, an heir to the banking fortune, was photographed for British Vogue She was photographed at store openings and celebrity-filled parties, on the red carpet, on vacation in St. Mellon had an extravagant clothing allowance, and a make-up artist and hair stylist on call, too. Eventually, she says, Jimmy Choo became a $900 million business. The stilettos regularly appeared on Sex and the City and quickly became an object of desire wearing them suggested a life of carefree glamour. For fifteen years, Tamara Mellon was the muse, face, and legs of Jimmy Choo, the luxury shoe company she co-founded in London with her parents’ money in 1996. ![]()
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