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I lost my Choo! Designer brand's co-founder Tamara Mellon reveals she lost £800,000 worth of designer footwear after thieves targeted her Los Angeles storage unit last year
The haul was her personal 'archive' of shoes, which she had collected in 16 years of working for Jimmy Choo - including pairs seen on screen and at red carpet events, such as the Oscars.
The haul was her personal ‘archive’ of shoes, which she had collected in 16 years of working for Jimmy Choo, the company she founded with the eponymous Malaysian designer – including pairs seen on screen and at red carpet events, such as the Oscars. Ms Mellon told the Page Six celebrity website she had now managed to recover 85 per cent of the stolen footwear, and thanked the detectives who reunited her with her treasured shoes Ms Mellon and Mr Choo founded the shoe brand in 1996, but she resigned from the company in 2011 after a series of public spats with its owners to set up a label in her own name.
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