In My Shoes
A Memoir
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In My Shoes
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Narrated by:
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Polly Lee
Tamara Mellon made a fortune building Jimmy Choo into a billion-dollar fashion brand. She became the prime minister's trade envoy and was honored by the Queen with the Order of the British Empire—yet it's her personal glamour that keeps her an object of global media fascination. Vogue photographed her wedding; Vanity Fair covered her divorce and the criminal trial that followed. Harper's Bazaar toured her London town house and her New York mansion, right down to the closets. And the Wall Street Journal hinted at the real red meat: the three private equity deals, the relentless battle between "the suits" and "the creatives," and Mellon's triumph against a brutally hostile takeover attempt.
In this candid memoir she shares the whole larger-than-life story, with genuinely shocking insider detail that has never been presented anywhere. From her troubled childhood to her time as a young editor at Vogue to her partnership with cobbler Jimmy Choo to her very public relationships, Mellon offers a gripping account of the episodes that have made her who she is today.
The result is a must read for entrepreneurs, fashionistas, and anyone who loves a juicy true story about sex, drugs, money, power, high heels, and overcoming adversity.
Critic reviews
—The Financial Times
“The Shoe Queen.”
—Vogue
“A kind of Henry James heroine for the bling generation.”
—Vanity Fair
“A woman shaped by hardship and scandal.”
—The Cut
“Tamara is an incredible businesswoman.”
—Tory Burch as quoted by the New York Times
“The Jimmy Choo brand has gone on to infiltrate popular culture on a mass scale, becoming synonymous with a kind of feminine luxury lifestyle that Mellon herself—strong, smart, independent, and glamorously larger than life—has come to personify.”
—Interview Magazine
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What was most disappointing about Tamara Mellon and William Patrick ’s story?
Although Tamara is clearly a talented business woman with a good vision, her story is infuriating as she constantly complains on how everybody is wrong, trying to screw her or else. When she clearly doesn't have one ounce of respect for anyone especially for the man who gave her his name (Jimmy Choo) when she took no time to later walk all over him. She is an egocentric, selfish and self centered woman. Unfortunately everyone that worked with her is bound to a non disclosure contract as i would have love to hear the other side of the story. Tamara has now left Jimmy Choo and her eponymous company Tamara Mellon failed... Not surprising at all.What about Polly Lee’s performance did you like?
Very goodDo you think In My Shoes needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No please no more Tamara.The story of a egocentric but talented girl...
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loved every bit every single bit.
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Would you try another book written by Tamara Mellon and William Patrick or narrated by Polly Lee?
NoHas In My Shoes put you off other books in this genre?
NoAny additional comments?
I usually love biographies but this was the worst I have ever read/heard. Slightly interesting in parts but tedious listening to her be the victim in every situation and aspect of her life. Glad I have never met her and never will.Yawn yawn
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