Must Read: The Towering World of Jimmy Choo

Edited by Kirby Marzec

Just as the fashion industry requires distinctly raw talent, success is partially determined on a social status basis, who you know outweighing what you know. You may very well be the world’s best designer, but until someone finds you, someone with a name that is, your efforts might as well seclude themselves to the privacy of your own home. Believe it or not, luxury shoe designer Jimmy Choo’s success story follows the exact formula above. But where did his cobbling skills come from? Who discovered his talent? How has Jimmy Choo become a household name for over a decade?

Through the teamed up eyes of a fashion journalist and a luxury goods equity analyst, Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira DeRosen, comes the business, social and fashion side to Jimmy Choo’s success story in “The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, And the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe.” Just by reading the first few pages, this book, $26 and available at most book retailers, is assuredly going to fill my dramatic, fashion empire sweet tooth. Love, hate, sex, drugs, celebrity, power, money, intrigue, and ambition. Need  I say anymore?