Jimmy Choo’s Sandra Choi Brought Back a Strappy Sandal From 1997 For the Brand’s Fall 2022 Collection
These days, it seems as if everyone is digging into their archives, looking back to mine something that might be relevant for today’s Y2K-and-beyond obsessed fashion crowd. The difference from most is that Jimmy Choo’s creative director Sandra Choi has been there all along. The designer began her role at the brand at its inception in 1996, after apprenticing for her uncle Jimmy Choo and then enrolling in Central Saint Martins to study fashion design and eventually take over design duties and the business. Suffice to say, Choi has plenty in her archives (both digital and some kept in real live sketch books from the very early days), but she’s used them somewhat sparingly. For fall ’22, however, the designer went back to one of her very first collections for the brand to bring back a strappy sandal from 1997 that looks as fresh now as it did in the late ’90s. “This was a style that I designed back in spring-summer 1997, we brought it out again and we modernized it,” Choi told FN at th