From a cobbler’s son in Penang, Malaysia, to the red carpets of Hollywood — the Jimmy Choo story is one of the most jaw-dropping rags to riches journeys in luxury fashion history. At just 11 years old, he hand-stitched his first pair of shoes. Decades later, his name would grace the feet of Princess Diana, Carrie Bradshaw, and A-list celebrities worldwide. But the real story — the partnerships, the betrayals, the billion-dollar buyouts — is far more complicated than the glamour suggests. What really happened when a poor Malaysian boy built one of the world’s most coveted shoe empires? Subscribe so you never miss a story like this.
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could be a 10 minute story…. but the narrator chooses to repeat and stretch details
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The topic is interesting, but the monotonous AI voice is aweful
The AI script is tedious and true to form repetitive. Lazy effort to create content fast.
If he was that poor, how did he go to england and how did he pay for his college? U didnt explain that part
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No replies to this question yet. I’m interested too.
@lindasands1433 To pay for his studies and stay in London during the early 1980s, Jimmy Choo had two gruelling part-time jobs: cleaning floors and equipment at a shoe factory and waiting tables in a restaurant. Choo explained that his odd jobs were vital to ease his parents’ financial burden. After his graduation, Choo wanted to stay in London permanently rather than returning to Penang. To help him in his dream to have his own workshop, his parents temporarily moved to the London. His mother’s retirement savings of £6,000 is his capital and paid the rent in the derelict former hospital. He is blessed to have supportive parents and the late princess in his life. Opportunists may steal from him but I think he’s contented that his name lives on.
very good . nice and clear story
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Like Henery Ford stated, “Just give me the facts” 😡
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Thank you Dato for gifting a pair of your shoes to my wife which you brought to us all the way from London! Thank you ❤
Von made me know about this
As an Indian now an immigrant watching this, I have seen TALENT in India which no one made a fuss about or turned it from a rags to riches story. Chinese settlers in West Bengal handcrafting shoes that were many a bride’s dream (shoes made of leather and a piece of the fabric of your wedding dress), Indian Tailors that tailored personalized formal wedding suits, women who made magic portions for skin and hair. They did not have to go to any specialized course of study or go abroad to be recognized but just did their job and earned money to live from lower to middle to then upper class as their talent brought them enough revenue. Colonial countries back in the day got all their ideas by travelling as hippies abd going back to empire and making money out of ideas seen overseas. I shudder when I see how immigrants have lost their inborn talent as recruitment is BIASED and places years of experienced immigrants into jobs they have NEVER done. Talent has been flushed down the drain by the Colonial mindset. If you need a talented maid, dont offer her a job as a gardener instead offer her a job as a cook in the house. Men look battered with stress doing jobs as new immigrants, in places they never have worked in back in their country. There are many such Jimmy Choos in India who are immigrants with dead dreams. I know of a youngster from Penang, who studied in a prestigious boarding in India, went to Switzerland and studied Catering and came with dreams to Australia to do his trade but we know where he ended up.😢😢 COLONIAL HEGEMON has to be stopped.
Clothes. Shoes. Bags all our cooperative why I said you should to register there ?
Because of your 25% discount taxes a yr and soon when all country they build our super mall for evry country your factory items we deliver to them free for their local your consumers my dera factory corporation