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Not everyone is too poor to buy three Gucci handbags in one go. But few want to be seen doing it, writes Sarah O'Connor. Luxury goods retailers are calling it [...]

TowerBrook, the private equity group best known for buying Jimmy Choo, the shoemaker, said yesterday it had raised $2.8bn ([pounds sterling]1.8bn) for its second fund since spinning out of the [...]

It's strange to think that 'Wag' - the acronym for footballers' wives and girlfriends - entered the Oxford English Dictionary only last year. Already Wags seem as traditionally English a [...]

Shoes, apparently, are a safer investment these days than stocks. So said Jimmy Choo chief executive Josh Shulman last week, surveying the rows of stacked and spindly heels arrayed before [...]

Luxury shoe retailer Kurt Geiger has been sold by owners Barclays Private Equity in a deal valued at Pounds 95m. Graphite Capital, the private equity group, backed the management buy-out. [...]

Caroline Martin, a consultant who lives in north London, will travel to Boston next week ostensibly for work purposes, but she has already made plans to squeeze in a bit [...]

As an actress and writer, Emily Stott knows better than most how to play a part. Even so, she admits to feeling nervous when, once a month, she steps through [...]

Now that Valentino is dancing with private equity, will other luxury goods brands follow its lead? Permira, the private equity group, this week gained control of 97 per cent of [...]

Jimmy Choo, the fashionistas' favourite shoemaker, has been sold by its private equity owner Lion Capital in a deal worth Pounds 185m. The sale will result in a gain of [...]

Shoe designer Jimmy Choo yesterday became the first person to receive the Freeman of the City of London since John Stuttard became Lord Mayor last week. Choo is an honorary [...]

The atmosphere is decidedly Euro at the Parisienne-inspired cafe-cum-bakery Aubaine in Knightsbridge; there's a lot of French being bandied about and many hot handbags perched on chairs (three Hermes, one [...]

Theo Paphitis, a star of BBC's Dragons' Den and the entrepreneur behind Ryman stationery, is selling a majority stake in lingerie retailer La Senza to Lion Capital. The deal underlines [...]

The cuttings make the prospect of interviewing Tamara Mellon, president of Jimmy Choo shoe company, as appealing as a pair of sweaty Reeboks. The 37-year-old 'doesn't come across as the [...]