The Queen’s birthday honours list acknowledges outstanding efforts in the fashion industry.
Tamara Mellon, OBE

Over the last decade, collaborations between luxury brands and contemporary artists have gone beyond mere artistic partnerships towards a new kind of luxury branding.
PARIS – Art and fashion have always developed side by side, for fashion, like art, often gives visual expression to the cultural zeitgeist. During the 1920s, Salvador Dalí created dresses for Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiapparelli. In the 1930s, Ferragamo’s shoes commissioned designs for advertisements from Futurist painter Lucio Venna, while Gianni Versace commissioned works from artists such as Alighiero Boetti and Roy Lichtenstein for the launch of his collections. Yves Saint Laurent’s vast art collection, recently auctioned at Christie’s in Paris, testified to his great love of art and revealed the influence of a variety of artists on his own designs.
In the 1980s, relationships between luxury brands and artists were advanced when Alain Dominique Perrin created the Fondation Cartier. In the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, a book marking the foundation’s 20th anniversary, Perrin says he makes “a connection between all the different sorts of arts, and luxury goods are a kind of art. Luxury goods are handicrafts of art, applied art.”
The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemparain building in Paris
The Queen’s birthday honours list acknowledges outstanding efforts in the fashion industry.
The Queen’s birthday honours list acknowledges outstanding efforts in the fashion industry.
Tamara Mellon, founder and chief creative officer of Jimmy Choo shoes, has been made OBE (Officer of the British Empire) in recognition of her contributions to the fashion industry — one of several individuals from a range of backgrounds singled out in the British Queen’s birthday honours list.
In a statement, Mellon expressed her delight at the accolade: “I am so thrilled to be receiving this great honour and to be recognized in this way. I am grateful to everyone at Jimmy Choo — and our customers around the globe — for helping make our success possible. While our brand has global reach, the roots and heritage of Jimmy Choo are uniquely British, so I am especially pleased and proud of this honour.”
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