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Podcast: The Glossy Podcast interviews Tamara Mellon's co-founders

In this episode, The Glossy Podcast interviews luxury shoe brand Tamara Mellon's co-founders: CEO Jill Layfield and co-founder Tamara Mellon. They discuss direct-to-consumer business, where capital investment goes and embracing various kinds of retail. Listen to the podcast below. Source: The Glossy Podcast via Megaphone

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Tamara Mellon raises 50 million USD in Series C funding with plans to grow company

Tamara Mellon, the direct-to-consumer luxury women’s shoe brand announced today that it has raised 50 million USD in Series C financing. In a press release from the brand, this is one of the largest rounds to date for a female-founded fashion company. The latest round in funding brings Tamara Mellon’s total capital to 87 million USD. The brand,...

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Video: CFDA Fashion Trust Conversation with Tamara Mellon

On Wednesday, Tamara Mellon, co-founder of Jimmy Choo and her namesake luxury footwear brand, which she launched in 2016, sat down with Anne Crawford at the C-Project in Los Angeles for the second ‘In-Conversation’ event hosted by the CFDA Fashion Trust. Source: Youtube, CFDA

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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...