Jimmy Choo Biography

Jimmy Choo is a Malaysian born fashion designer whose handmade shoe designs earned him fame and success early in his career. Born into a family of shoemakers, Choo got his start in fashion design early and worked with shoes throughout his schooling and formative years. Shortly after his graduation from a London technical college he was designing, hand crafting and selling his own shoes and gaining international attention with his unique and detailed work. Many celebrity customers in his early career, including the glamorous Princess Diana of Wales, helped transform his growing popularity into worldwide notoriety. After the success of his handmade shoes made him a household name in the fashion industry, he worked together with an editor of British 'Vogue' magazine to cofound his own company, ‘Jimmy Choo Ltd’, which became a major worldwide fashion label, within a few short years. He sold his controlling stake in the company, but still remains involved in the design work for the haute couture section of the business, leaving the running of the successful ready to wear and accessory lines to his business partner Tamara Mellon of 'Vogue'. Today Choo's name remains synonymous with high fashion and self-made success, especially in his native country of Malaysia