A Legacy of Jimmy Choo's Early Days

Jimmy Choo is a great entrepreneur in inventing his own shoes based on his own name. His full name is Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat. He was born on November 15th of 1952 and now he is 60 years old. He was born in Penang, Malaysia. He is the son of shoe cobbler, Choo was immersed in the world of shoemaker from an early age. He is a Malaysian-Chinese fashion designer in London. His father wanted him to follow his footstep in becoming a shoemaker.

He created his first own shoes when he is only at the age of 11 years old. When he first start up, his father did not allow him to make a shoe, instead his father only asked him to sit and watch. But then, after he learned from his father, he made his way to England in early years of 1980's to study at the Cordwainers Technical College in Hackney.

Choo revealed that he has worked part-time at a restaurant and as a cleaner in a shoe factory to help fund his college education. Jimmy Choo traced his beginnings back to his workshop in Hackney, North London, which he opened in 1986 after graduated in 1983 by renting an old hospital building. For the next decade all the Jimmy Choo shoes were handmade and most were commissioned for specific functions. Clients would often bring fabric samples of their gowns so that colour could be matched.

His craftsmanship and designs were soon noticed and he came to the edge of international notability when his creations were featured in a record eight pages in a 1988 issue of Vogue magazine.