Jimmy Choo’s Mellon Kicks Coke Habit, Raises Stilettos

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Reading Tamara Mellon’s memoir, “In My Shoes,” is a lot like wearing a pair of stilettos: thrilling and uncomfortable at the same time.

Until 2011, Mellon strode around in shoes by Jimmy Choo, the high-end brand she founded in London in 1996 with Choo, a Malaysian couture shoemaker, and her father, entrepreneur Tommy Yeardye, who had worked with Vidal Sassoon.