For Autumn 2024, Jimmy Choo references the formative years of the house – the paradoxical style of the 1990s – as seen through a contemporary lens. Ladylike refinement was melded with the mood of the streets in the late ‘90s. Today the decade’s signature polish is tempered with an air of nonchalance. The result is a collection of twisted classics, mining the house’s rich heritage to restate the codes and identity.
“This collection is about exploring a quintessentially British interpretation of a ladylike aesthetic. I was reminiscing on that moment in the 1990s when different worlds collided – models, the YBAs and socialites, it was also when Jimmy Choo was born. There was a distinct minimalism, a classicism, but always with an element of eccentricity. It made it fundamentally British, and distinctly Jimmy Choo.” Sandra Choi, Creative Director.
The Autumn collection proposes juxtapositions: tough, biker-influenced looks that speak of the street, alongside refined ladylike silhouettes with a poised elegance. Black leather as supple as silk in sleek silhouettes, while delicate heels and glistening crystal are given a wicked edge. Shapes are sharp, leathers are soft – there’s a dichotomy in every piece. In that, you also find a fusion between the spirit of London and the soul of New York, two cities whose distinct aesthetics helped define the decade; old-world and new, polished and refined.
Throughout, inspiration comes from the Jimmy Choo archive – silhouettes, sensibilities, iconic styles. For day, the classic Jimmy Choo biker boot influences; emphatic styles with a rebellious, androgynous twist elevated in soft, smooth leathers. The BROOKLYN biker, an homage to the borough’s achingly cool up-and-coming status in the 1990s, is offered in an ankle or knee-high variation, featuring an angular Jimmy Choo DIAMOND buckle.
The MARLOW DIAMOND is a street-smart loafer with creeper-proportioned flatform sole, embossed with the emblematic Diamond facets. Volume is echoed in the QUINN, a mid-calf boot in soft grained leather with a harnessed ankle, on a thick tread sole with stud detailing.
The CAROLYN proposes a witty play of trompe l’oeil – a Mary Jane mule in latte spazolatto leather is fused into a navy sock-boot in tech-knit, streamlining a characteristic 1990s silhouette of slender heel and tapered, sharply-pointed vamp on a lower heel.
SCARLETT is a key model, proposed in buttery nappa leather coloured a rich postbox red. Offered as a kitten heel or ankle boot, respectively grounded on 50mm and 95mm iterations of the iconic Jimmy Choo DROP heel. These styles sport corset-style lacing across their pointed vamp, with a revealing slither of skin between the criss-crossing leather. The IXIA pump with its signature liquid DROP heel manifests a mesh surface dotted with crystals like dewdrops, laid over satin. Both champion a characteristic Jimmy Choo squared cut to the vamp, lending their delicacy a sharp graphicism.
Accessories reflect the collection’s fusions of styles and perspectives. The DIAMOND TOTE is a new expansion of this Jimmy Choo family, proposed in soft self-lined leather and herringbone with hot-fix all-over crystal. In both instances, the sharp facets of Jimmy Choo’s iconic jewels become soft folds, lending volume and supple pliability.
The DIAMOND SHOULDER, a neat, compact underarm style nods to quintessential accessory styles of the 1990s with a new Jimmy Choo slant – drenched with an all-over glossy crystal finish, accentuated by the angular metallic DIAMOND chain envelope closure. An evolution of a style offered for high summer, the CINCH is proposed in latte soft shiny calf, DIAMOND hardware toughening up its characteristic softness. Opposite attract.
