Tamara Mellon Quotations

You never know. Down the road you can do a lot of product categories. But I think you really have to build your core first and for people to know you and respect you for that.

There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.

I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.

I had to put the company through a reorg, raise a new round of financing, and sort of press the restart button. But my feeling was that I wasn't going to be bullied. I wasn't going to let them take me down. I had to pull myself together and move forward.

I wear Sweet Revenge, the legging boots, a lot particularly in the winter.

Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear.

What I hate is leather leggings and an ankle boot. I hate the line.

I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.

The next few years is really going to be focused on shoes.