Most of us know Datuk Jimmy Choo as a very famous shoe designer based in London. Certain people (me included) think Jimmy Choo is master in designing weird looking foot wears. Many also believed that his career as a shoe maker has been glitter all along. The blatant truth about what we know about him is that he is freaking rich and successful. Few, however, are aware of Jimmy Choo’s humble beginning who studied only until Year 6 and worked his way up partly by cleaning the toilet at a shoe factory and surviving with instant noodles.
Jimmy Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia in 1961 into a family of shoe maker, where his late father, Choo Kee Yin owned a shoe making shop in one of the streets in Penang. He went to Shih Chung primary school and studied until year 6. He stopped to help his father in the shoe making business where he made his very own first shoe at the age of 11. The skills he learned made him fell in love with the shoe making business and from there he decided to pursue studying in the field of shoe designing in Cortwainers College in London (Now part of London College of Fashion). The course took him 4 years to complete.
