Shoe
designer Jimmy Choo may be 61-years-old but he says he can't stop designing.
Famous for his shoe company, Choo comments that he is always working on new
designs and constantly sketching. He also trains younger designers and works
with them to help them improve their creative vision. He admits he simply
"cannot stop" and he always feels completely satisfied when he's
created something fresh. The designer opened up: ''I'm still designing
shoes and sketching. I can't be without designing shoes. I'm still training
young people and working with them closely. But I still design shoes. I cannot
stop. When I design a beautiful shoe I am satisfying myself. For many years
I've been doing this and I love it. I cannot stop designing. Nobody can tie my
hands and stop me.''
Choo
reveals that when he was much younger and living in Malaysia as a young boy, he
would spend all of his free time watching his parents and uncle creating
footwear which inspired him to learn and he thinks that the process was very
different in the old days because you didn't learn via technology, but by
simply observing how others crafted: ''In the old days, there was no
iPhone, no television, no computer. So when I finished school and homework my
mother and father would always say to me, 'Son do you want to learn something?'
I always watched my father, my mother and my uncle make shoes. In the old days
you were encouraged to watch, because when you watch you learn.''
