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"   Tamara Mellon in Jimmy Choo&amp;#039;s fragrance campaign.  Tamara Mellon, Jimmy Choo&amp;#039;s founder and Chief Creative Officer, and Joshua Shulman, the brand&amp;#039;s CEO, announced their joint resignation from the company this weekend. Shulman told WWD that his leaving the company is unrelated to Mellon&amp;#039;s decision, but that they announced their news together to insure a &amp;quot;smooth transition.&amp;quot; Their leaving comes just six months after the Jimmy Choo brand was purchased by Labelux, (though it&amp;#039;s a few years after Mellon started trying to sell the luxury accessories company). In July, Mellon told Footwear News, &amp;quot;None of the bidders would buy the company without me,&amp;quot;\u2014a good enough reason to say on. Though she also said, &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re only a teenager. It takes about 30 years for a luxury brand to really hit maturity.&amp;quot; Anyone paying attention to the Jimmy Choo brand would think Mellon was in it for the long haul. In the fifteen years since she found Jimmy Choo, the man, and started the shoe brand, she&amp;#039;s become the face of Choo and rapidly turned it into one of the most recognizable luxury brands, launching handbags and perfume and opening a slew of stores across the world. WWD suggests she&amp;#039;s ready to work her magic on another brand. Meanwhile, the head of Labelux sounds optimistic, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s always a surprise when people resign, but you digest the news and then see how you can build a future. But there are no negative feelings. We&amp;#039;re all very positive and there won&amp;#039;t be a change in strategic direction at Jimmy Choo.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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