Luxury shoe designer Jimmy Choo is reportedly in talks over a potential £1bn (€1.2bn) stock market debut as flotation fever shows no sign of ending.

Luxury shoe designer Jimmy Choo is reportedly in talks over a potential £1bn stock market debut as flotation fever shows no sign of ending.

AN ASIAN immigrant arrives in Britain in the 1970s without any English, works his way through cobbler school, toils every hour in a shabby workshop and ends up making shoes for film stars, socialites and the world’s best-loved princess.

THE world’s best-known shoe-maker Jimmy Choo said he hopes to live out his lifelong dream of coming to Ireland soon to get some inspiration to design his world-famous footwear.