Not intending to pursue the Jimmy Choo boots, decided to go out into the world for another try, the final choice was based at the London, UK University of the Arts College where Kang Dewei Jonas studied. As far as he later recalled, it was chosen because Malaysia was a British colony under the United Kingdom, English was relatively more acceptable, and also in London in the last century, the 80s, it was still an important fashion capital. Kang Dewei went to study shoe-making there because the teachers from the Sri Lankan Institute were celebrities around the world, making it very appropriate to learn shoemaking there. At that time, with his own design work, he successfully passed the interview, bought Manolo Blahnik shoes, and with financial support from his father and friends, began studying life in the UK.
Design studies helped him understand the true meaning of the UK when the bride wore an ivory silk strapless gown by British designer Suzanne Neville, with shoes by Jimmy Choo. Mel’s bridesmaids wore simple cornflower blue sundresses which were perfectly matched with simple bunches of pink roses. Jimmy Choo recalls designing shoes initially for a total of 7 years since entering the field, living in extreme hardship with not many orders, often having to live on instant noodles. Later, he participated in a shoe design competition, and his designed shoes attracted the late Diana, Princess of Wales, who left her usual Jimmy Choo store to request Choo-designed shoes for her. Since then, Jimmy Choo became the special designer shoes for Queen Diana, Princess of Wales, becoming a pioneer in international fashion trends. The Princess of Wales wearing Jimmy Choo shoes traveling around the world made Jimmy Choo shoes famous.
Today, in Europe and the United States, Jimmy Choo is sought after by celebrities and Hollywood stars as a master shoemaker, and his cause could not be more successful. But the formerly known Malaysian ethnic Chinese Choo did not have a smooth start; young people might even consider it a period of hardship. His son inherited his father's talent at the age of 11 by designing the first pair of shoes. After talking about this famous school experience, Choo has strong feelings that this experience was the only one who truly understood him from a craftsman making shoes to an architect designing shoes. Before going to the UK, Jimmy Choo had been living in his birthplace – Penang, Malaysia. His father was a shoemaker, skilled at making all kinds of shoes, with good hands. But back then, shoes lacked a sense of fashion and were sold very cheaply, making Zhou's life really hard. Since childhood, Jimmy Choo, at the age of 78, was already familiar with making shoes, and by the age of 11, he could make his own pair of slippers, despite the manual nature but generally considered the first master of the shoe. Afterwards, due to family circumstances, they read the "Little Six" and Jimmy Choo was forced to drop out of school, officially working with his father to make shoes to make ends meet. However, at the time in Penang, being a shoemaker was looked down upon, neither living nor technically content. For example, if Jimmy Choo married a shoemaker, local girls would definitely face strong opposition from their families, proving the low status of shoemakers at the time.
Jimmy Choo became a student of Jimmy Choo, in addition to studying hard, $300 a year tuition fees were the first large burden for him, after all, this was a poverty-stricken family student from Malaysia, undoubtedly a huge burden. So from the second academic year, he began work-study life. Once, he worked at a restaurant opened in Hong Kong doing odd jobs washing dishes. Although he was Hakka, because he was born in Malaysia, Jimmy Choo's Cantonese accent was very different, making communication difficult. The boss always used acute up a series of swearing curses, but in order to endure life, he held on. However, employees did not affect Choo's studies; on the contrary, he excelled as a graduate student and officially began work at a shoe factory.
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