Tamara Mellon Leaving Jimmy Choo; CEO Joshua Schulman Exits As Well

So long, Tamara Mellon.

The Jimmy Choo CCO and founder, along with the brand's CEO Joshua Schulman, has exited the company, reported Women's Wear Daily.

The news was confirmed after the Telegraph announced on Saturday that Mellon was planning on quitting the company she founded in 1996.

As all news sources noted, the high-level departures come just five months after luxury group Labelux acquired Jimmy Choo for a reported $850 million. Schulman told Footwear News that the decision to leave came after "conversations over time with Labelux management and shareholders," although there are no reports of ill will between the parties involved.

His departure is ostensibly not connected to Mellon's, although the timing might suggest otherwise. Mellon, who founded the brand with the Malaysian-born Mr. Jimmy Choo, was the more public figure of the two, posing for the brand's ads (and, on occasion, in the nude) and representing the glamorous face of Jimmy Choo.

So where will the entrepreneurial British glamazon head next? News reports have no concrete answers, but Mellon did mention this summer that founding a new brand was a possibility.

Because really, we could use more animal-print stilettos in this world.

Read more at WWD.com.

Comments

[JEFFYBRUCE]

12:52 PM on 11/14/2011

How can it be that I am in constant amazement as to how uneducated and ininformed the writer is about fashion. If you had done your homework on the subject, you would know that without the guidance and financial help of Tamara's daddy ..there would be no Jimmy Choo ...no to tmention of course the subterfuge which was used to oust Mr Choo from his eponymous company ..but it would be foolish of me to even think this was possible

[Mithril]

08:51 PM on 11/15/2011

...and here I was thinking I was quite solitary in lamenting the writer's abyssmal lack of
fashion basics. Thank you for pointing out what needed to be said, JeffyBruce. Ever read
the post on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's 'kerchief'? It seems the concept of a scarf was
an alien one. Your observations are perfectly correct where this writer is concerned.

[JEFFYBRUCE]

11:38 PM on 11/15/2011

and day after day..time after time , she writes wit no basis for her word sand then as if no tbad enough she has no knowledge or conception what the business of fasgion is all about ...and lastly she has no clue as to what the proper vocabulary of the business is ..ignorance and lack of knowledge and least of all an opinion based on any tangible history.....

[TheSC shoes]

12:39 PM on 11/14/2011

Hopefully her replacement will have her own fabulousness to bring to the table... Pick me pick me!!!