Life Lessons | Tamara Mellon: Designer, Founder, and Fashion Entrepreneur

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When Tamara Mellon started working at Brown’s in London at age 18, she never could have imagined that the experience would someday lead to working at British Vogue, co-founding Jimmy Choo, becoming a designer in her own right, and eventually starting her own eponymous label. On this week’s episode of Life Lessons, Mellon swings by to deliver important advice for entrepreneurs, explain what it’s really like working in fashion, and give us some insights into the game-changing model she’s adopted at her own company.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hilary Kerr and this is Life Lessons, a podcast spotlighting women who
0:10.6	have incredible careers within a single field or industry.
0:15.6	We talk about everything from how they got their start to the best things they've learned
0:20.1	along the way.
0:21.1	Today, I am truly delighted to have a remarkable woman in the studio with me, Tamara Melon,
0:27.3	the serial fashion entrepreneur, who is also the founder of her eponymous Los Angeles-based
0:33.5	Italian-made direct to consumer luxury footwear company.
0:38.2	If you aren't familiar with her company for some reason, it's really quite gorgeous
0:41.6	and brilliant and she's disrupting the luxury shoe space by going direct to consumer she
0:46.7	can offer incredible designer shoes at a more attainable price point, plus she doesn't
0:52.0	abide by the traditional fashion calendar.
0:54.7	Instead, offering four to six new styles monthly so that there's always seasonally appropriate
1:00.2	newness.
1:01.8	She also has a fascinating background in the footwear space as she co-founded Jimmy Chu
1:07.2	and served as the brand's creative officer from 1996 until 2011.
1:13.3	Needless to say, this woman knows luxury footwear like almost no one else in the world
1:18.4	and I am so excited to have her on the show.
1:21.6	Now, with no further ado, it's Tamara Melon on Life Lessons.
1:28.1	So Tamara, let's start at the beginning.
1:30.8	What did you study in school and what did you think you were going to be when you grew
1:34.5	up?
1:35.5	Okay, so the truth is I was terrible in school.
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