I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

- Tamara Mellon

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immun…

- Tamara Mellon

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done th…

- Tamara Mellon

It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

- Tamara Mellon

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

- Tamara Mellon

Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and int…

- Tamara Mellon

It doesn't matter what you are wearing-if you have good shoes and a good bag, you'll look right.

- Tamara Mellon

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.

- Tamara Mellon

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

- Tamara Mellon