For fifteen years,Tamara Mellon was the muse,face,and legs of Jimmy Choo,the luxury shoe company she co founded in London with her parents’money in 1996.The stilettos regularly appeared on Sex and the City and quickly became an object of desire;wearing them suggested a life of carefree glamour.Eventually,she says,Jimmy Choo became a $900 million business.Mellon had an extravagant clothing allowance,and a make up artist and hair stylist on call,too.She was photographed at store openings and celebrity-filled parties,on the red carpet,on vacation in St.Bart’s,in her closet,in the nude.Her 2000 wedding to Matthew Mellon,an heir to the banking fortune,was photographed for British Vogue
