Thursday, April 29, 2010

THE TOWERING WORLD OF JIMMY CHOO THE REVIEWS...READ ALL ABOUT IT!


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Top 10 Business Books 2009, October 1, 2009:
IN OUR PERENNIAL effort to help librarians maintain a wide-ranging business collection, we offer below 10 outstanding titles reviewed in Booklist over the past year that are worthy of inclusion in, and guaranteed to expand the range of, any public library business collection.
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The Herald (Ireland)
There's no business like Choo business!, June 15, 2009:
TAMARA MELLON IS the London society girl whose wedding to millionaire banking-heir Matthew Mellon in 2000 was attended by Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant -- and another 388 guests who mostly wore Jimmy Choos. She is also the glamorous public face of Choo, the designer shoes which were the first sexy stilettos to get a mention on Sex and The City, in spite of Carrie finally falling for Manolo Blahniks.
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The Guardian
Stepping out of the Limelight, June 13, 2009:
IN THE CENTRE of this book there's a slim portfolio of happy snaps - unhappy snaps actually, given that the families in them became estranged, the couples divorced, and the business partnerships sundered in acrimony. The pictures are cropped at the knee, the glam people left footless. Only once is a shoe properly visible. It's the true subject of a portrait of its maker, Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat. He's a severe man seated at his bench, the glue smell of his workshop almost wafting off the page as he lifts a strappy number in his flexible craftsman's hands. One finger lightly supports its pointed toe. This is the shoe as made object; look hard at it, because elsewhere in this book, the shoe as shoe is paid scant attention. Choo doesn't get much more.
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The Wall Street Journal
Cobbler to the Stars , June 3, 2009:
IN THE LATE 1990s, the only luxury shoemaker in the world that might have been considered synonymous with $500 stilettos was Manolo Blahnik. When the shoes-obsessed women of "Sex and the City" made their debut in 1998, they cooed over Manolos. But a rival would soon get its foot in the door with shoppers for high-end women's footwear by launching a campaign to win Hollywood's affections. As Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosen relate in "The Towering World of Jimmy Choo," the eponymous company -- led by president Tamara Mellon, who co-founded the business in London in 1996 with Jimmy Choo, a Malaysian-born shoemaker -- decided to make an extraordinary effort to court celebrities' favor and gain wider publicity for the brand.
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The Observer
Of Stilettoes and Socialites, May 31, 2009:
IT IS HARD to remember now, but there was a time, before Sex and the City was the merest diamante twinkle in a television executive's eye, when most women did not think it reasonable to spend £500 on a pair of designer heels. Then, suddenly, for a while before our credit cards were comprehensively crunched, it seemed as though we were saturated by consumerism. It was not so much conspicuous consumption as consumption that wore a floor-length mink coat lined with diamonds and shouted: "Look at me! Look at me!" The rise of the Jimmy Choo shoe empire coincided almost exactly with the boom in the luxury goods market through the late 1990s.
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The Scotsman
Book Review by Kayt Turner, May 31, 2009:
I THINK IT'S fair to say that I Love Shoes. I also love gossip and intrigue...well, who doesn't? So when The Towering World Of Jimmy Choo then to my desk, promising "a story of power, profits and the pursuit of the perfect shoe", I thought that all my Christmases had come at once. Tamara Mellon, Jimmy Choo's president, is a stellar fixture on the party scene and anyone that she doesn't know really isn't worth knowing. Jimmy Choo is a multi-million pound operation and you've got to think that more than a few tears were shed and a few knives drawn along the way.
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The Sunday Times
Book Review by Camilla Long, May 31, 2009:
ONE OF THE cheapest shoes Jimmy Choo ever produced was a high-heeled flip-flop made from terry cloth in the summer of 2003. You may not have been able to walk in them, but, at £185, they were a snip compared with some of the brand's skyscraper styles, shoes hoovered up at £500 a go by women who couldn't work out if they were more obsessed with the brand's snakeskin and satin confections or the sex and social life of Tamara Mellon, the company's glamorous president.
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People Magazine
Style Watch, May 29, 2009:
IF YOU THOUGHT the stiletto heels were glamorous, wait until you read the whole story! The Towering World of Jimmy Choo, by Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosen, is a story filled with fashion, glitz, backstabbing and drama. From a dingy warehouse where the Malaysian shoemaker named Jimmy Choo made custom heels for British socialites to heiress Tamara Mellon's tabloid-ready life to sparkling stores on Rodeo Drive, the making of this household name wasn't an easy journey. Get your copy (just in time for beach reading!).
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Seventeen Magazine
Find Out the Crazy History of Jimmy Choo and His Amazing Shoes! , May 29, 2009:
DID JIMMY CHOO really exist before Carrie fawned over them on Sex and the City? The answer is kind of! The new book The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe by Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosen gives you an exclusive look behind the scenes at this iconic shoe brand. Jimmy Choo (the man, not the shoe) started out in a little workshop in London making shoes for Princess Diana. Then Tamara Yeardye, a London socialite, convinced him to launch his now famous shoe line and the rest is history! The story is full of major drama and is super interesting...and totally true! So even if you can't afford the shoes themselves, for a much smaller price, now you can know their history! Check it out!
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Glamour Fashion
Four Things You Never Knew About Jimmy Choo, May 18, 2009:
THE NEW BOOK The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe is chock full of juicy details about one of fashion's most successful luxury labels, and I got even more inside scoop from one of the book's authors, Lauren Goldstein Crowe, during a Q&A I held with her this weekend. Find out more, after the jump.
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Forbes
Building A Business On Four-Inch Heels, May 18, 2009:
DESPITE DWINDLING PAYCHECKS, shallow bank accounts and disappearing trust funds, high-priced shoes are still the item du jour in fashionable circles. This season, nothing's creating more buzz than Yves Saint Laurent's cage booties, $1,460, or Louis Vuitton's Spicy sandal, $2,720. That's why Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosen's new book, The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe seems prescient, despite the fact that conspicuous consumption was purportedly laid to rest alongside Wall Street back in October.
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Joansbooks.com
Your Jimmy Choos aren't, April 22, 2009:
JIMMY CHOO, THE shoemaker, hasn't had anything to do with Jimmy Choo, the shoes, for quite a while now. That's what this book is about - the way a small, artisanal shoemaking company catering to a select group of wealthy women was turned into an international luxury ready-to-wear brand featured on television...
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Amazon.com
Success Story is Not Even the Word!, April 16, 2009:
WHAT A FASCINATING glimpse into the fashion industry and its treachery, and a powerful story of a very talented man and those who championed his work to make him who he is today. Even though I am not a fashion person in the LEAST, I was interested in reading this book because I was walking in midtown and saw a shoe display that stopped me in my TRACKS. Of course, it was Jimmy Choo. I don't even LIKE heels but I was smitten! So when this book became available on Vine, I knew I had to read it and I was not disappointed. You won't be either!
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Amazon.com
More Than Just a Book About a Luxury Shoe, April 15, 2009:
THE AUTHORS DEEPLY steeped in the fashion industry create a compelling book that is based on the creation of the Jimmy Choo shoe brand. Starting from the humble beginnings of Jimmy Choo himself, building shoes one at a time for a small elite clientele, including Lady Di, to the towering world brought about by the efforts of Tamara Yeardye who saw a dream in expand...
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Booklist
Book Review by Barbara Jacobs , April 15, 2009:
AS THE WORLD economy continues to reel, one burning question prompted by journalist Crowe and financial analyst De Rosen's riveting history of the ups and downs and ups again of the Jimmy Choo brand: Will there continue to be a market for high-end luxury goods? The answer is a toss-up among today's pundits. Then again, so is the response to the question posed first by the authors: Does Jimmy Choo represent a new business model for luxury brands or was it simply in the right place at the right time? There is something Sex and the City-like about Jimmy Choo's rise to fashionista prominence: it's the tale of many machinations, many different owners (three in less than one decade), and clashes of outsized personalities, incuding Jimmy Choo (yes, he exists!), the Malaysian shoemaking talent; Tamara Mellon, the celebrity president (and her parents); Matthew Mellon, her former husband and an American banking scion-cumparty guy; and Robert Bensoussan, farsighted CEO and entrepreneur, among dozens of other celebrities and characters. A fascinating, well-written chronology that draws a chillingly accurate behind-the-scenes portrait of a contemporary fashion brand.
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Nylon Magazine Book Club
Choos or Lose, March 30, 2009:
WHEN I WAS 20, my father gave me the most valuable present I've ever received - even better than a car. It was The Business of Fashion, a book by Teri Agins on what it really meant to work in the clothing industry. Besides being cool and fascinating, it helped me understand my future job in a way no college course could.
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Dark Shadow Magazine
by Genn Shaughnessy , March 20, 2009:
IF YOU'VE SEEN Sex & The City from start to finish, you're well aware of the brand building plugs throughout the series. Did you know that Jimmy Choo was the first shoe brand to be mentioned in it? Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamourous story of Power, Profits and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe by...
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Reading With Monie
Behind the Scenes With World Famous Brand, March 1, 2009:
THE TOWERING WORLD of Jimmy Choo is the behind the scenes story of the world famous shoe brand. Jimmy Choo was a young shoemaker who crafted made-to-order shoes for a few select wealthy clients in London when he caught the eye of Tamara Yeardye. Tamara began using Jimmy's shoes in Vogue layouts...
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