Jimmy Choo, renowned for his luxury footwear, has launched the Jimmy Choo Academy (JCA) London Fashion Academy to empower aspiring fashion designers. The academy emphasizes both design skills and business acumen, equipping graduates with the tools to launch their own successful fashion ventures.
From British royalty to Hollywood stars, Jimmy Choo's luxury shoes have been worn by countless celebrities on red carpets around the world. Now Choo is helping the next generation of fashion designers to follow in his footsteps, with the opening of the Jimmy Choo Academy (JCA) London Fashion Academy in 2021. \'My father always said to me, if you have the knowledge and the skills, if you pass on your legacy, then the younger generation all the skills and knowledge as well,' he told CNBC.
Choo was born in Malaysia, where his father taught him how to make shoes by hand. \The academy offers students a bachelor's or master's degree in entrepreneurship in design and brand innovation — with business a key part of the program. Students learn about marketing and PR and write business plans with the aim of starting their own 'micro' fashion enterprise after graduation, according to a description on the JCA London Fashion Academy website. \'Even the most talented of fashion designers will fail if they have no business acumen,' Choo said in a press release. \JCA London Fashion Academy designer Olivia Black's collection, 'A war with the environment,' aims to highlight the 'battle' that needs to happen to combat sustainability issues, Black told CNBC. \The academy also opened a temporary physical location — the JCA Retail Gallery — on the ground floor of the upscale White City Living development in west London, where the students' collections were exhibited and on sale last week. \'The idea of launching this was to give a platform to sell their work without having to pay the fees of what you would usually pay to retail and give them that opportunity to speak to the general public,' said Olivia Black, one of the academy's graduates and co-curator of the JCA Retail Gallery. The retail space was gifted to the academy by real estate firm Berkeley Group
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