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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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Tamara Mellon closes 2015 with -refinancing approval from court

Fashion mogul and Jimmy Choo's founder Tamara Mellon will close the year with positive news: after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier in December, the court has granted her company a lifeline. Mellon's ultimate aim with the filing was to have the court approve her namesake brand's business plan to raise extra funding, mainly...

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Tamara Mellon closes 2015 with -refinancing approval from court

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Tamara Mellon files for voluntary bankruptcy

London - Tamara Mellon, former co-founder of iconic footwear label Jimmy Choo, has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to protect her current eponymous ready-to-wear and footwear brand from creditors. Mellon, who launched her own label through her firm Tamara Mellon LLC in November 2013, filed the claim late Wednesday night in...

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Tania Spinelli named chief design officer of Tamara Mellon

Tamara Mellon has selected Tania Spinelli for the role of chief design officer of the Tamara Mellon brand. In her new role, Spinelli will be overseeing all women's footwear design. “She has a great design sense and extensive technical knowledge,” Mellon was quoted saying to WWD regarding Spinelli's appointment. Spinelli has an impressive list of...

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Co-founder of Jimmy Choo Tamara Mellon requests the footwear label 'cease and desist'

London - Tamara Mellon, co-founder of Jimmy Choo, has taken the first step to legal action against her former footwear label by sending a 'cease and desist' letter to the label's chief executive officer Pierre Denis. Mellon, who set up Jimmy Choo in 1996 and then left the company 2011, claims that the luxury footwear brand has taken "unlawful...