Tamara Mellon news and archive

Podcast: The Glossy Podcast interviews Tamara Mellon's co-founders

In this episode, The Glossy Podcast interviews luxury shoe brand Tamara Mellon's co-founders: CEO Jill Layfield and co-founder Tamara Mellon. They discuss direct-to-consumer business, where capital investment goes and embracing various kinds of retail. Listen to the podcast below. Source: The Glossy Podcast via Megaphone

Fashion

Tamara Mellon integrates inclusive sizing to boot collection

Luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon has launched inclusive sizes for the first time. The company's popular Icon Boot now comes in three options for calf size, as a response to consumer demand. "When Icon first launched, it quickly became a bestseller," reads the Tamara Mellon website. "But when we started hearing from women who said it didn’t...

Retail

Tamara Mellon launches traveling retail concept called "TM Closet"

Retail hits the road. Footwear designer Tamara Mellon has unveiled a traveling shoe closet as a new retail concept. Called "TM Closet," the mobile store will stop in several cities across the U.S. from now through mid-December. The footwear designer launched her eponymous, direct-to-consumer label in 2013 after co-founding Jimmy Choo. Her line...

Business

Tamara Mellon raises 50 million USD in Series C funding with plans to grow company

Tamara Mellon, the direct-to-consumer luxury women’s shoe brand announced today that it has raised 50 million USD in Series C financing. In a press release from the brand, this is one of the largest rounds to date for a female-founded fashion company. The latest round in funding brings Tamara Mellon’s total capital to 87 million USD. The brand,...

Video

Video: CFDA Fashion Trust Conversation with Tamara Mellon

On Wednesday, Tamara Mellon, co-founder of Jimmy Choo and her namesake luxury footwear brand, which she launched in 2016, sat down with Anne Crawford at the C-Project in Los Angeles for the second ‘In-Conversation’ event hosted by the CFDA Fashion Trust. Source: Youtube, CFDA

BusinessFeatured

Tamara Mellon raises 24 million dollars to “accelerate growth”

Luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon has raised 24 million dollars in a Series B round of financing led by existing investors New Enterprise Associates with new investor, Quadrille Capital. The Series B round of funding brings the total amount of capital raised by the luxury footwear brand ‘designed for women, by women’ to 37 million dollars. In...

People

Tamara Mellon brings on new senior vice president of communications

Luxury shoe brand Tamara Mellon recently appointed Celine Khavarani as the brand's new senior vice president of communications. Coming from Marc Jacobs, she will direct all public relations and corporate communications for Tamara Mellon. After returning to a direct-to-consumer business model two years ago, Tamara Mellon survived financial...

Retail

Tamara Mellon returns with direct-to-consumer business model

London - Tamara Mellon is said to have already had her mind set on launching a direct to consumer business model back in 2013. Now, three years and one Chapter 11 bankruptcy later, the footwear designer is back with a her new vision and brand - one which isn't that far off from the 'See Now, Buy Now,' model currently being taken on by designers...

Retail

Tamara Mellon aims to relaunch brand next month

Tamara Mellon is said to be preparing for her big return to the industry next month, as the footwear designer is set to relaunch her eponymous brand online this October under a direct-to-consumer business model. The new structure is said to remove all wholesale accounts and see Tamara Mellon offers it products exclusively through its new...

Retail

Tamara Mellon relaunches in Los Angeles

Los Angeles - Luxury brand Tamara Mellon is transitioning to a new headquarters location. The lifestyle brand just announced that its big move from New York City to Los Angeles. The decision to move the headquarters accompanies the brand’s relaunch this year. The website, which is currently under construction, reads, “I’m throwing out the...

ManagementFeatured

Tamara Mellon takes company out of bankruptcy and regains control over eponymous brand

Tamara Mellon’s eponymous company has left the bankruptcy protection earlier this week. After exiting from Chapter 11, the company has emerged with a new model to sell direct to the consumer. In December, the former chief creative officer of Jimmy Choo took her namesake company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while she looked for...

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Tamara Mellon to quit New York HQ amid bankruptcy

Former Jimmy Choo partner Tamara Mellon is to close her self-named fashion company's Madison Avenue headquarters as part of a plan to emerge from bankruptcy in America. Mellon founded her company after she left Jimmy Choo having found significant financial backing to set up a new venture. However two years after setting up shop in Manhattan,...