The Jewish Chronicle

In Chloe’s

Heiress to a high-street empire, Sir Phillip Green’s daughter is fashioning her own footwear line

- BY BRIGIT GRANT

IHAVEN’T CONTACTED Hasbro just yet, but I think I’ve come up with an intriguing idea for a new board game. The working title is The Heiress Chase and the object of the game is to get four renowned heiresses around the board so they can claim their inheritanc­e at the finish line.

Think of it as a glamorous version of Monopoly, where instead of buying streets, its penthouses, mansions and a flight in daddy’s Cessna that’s up for grabs. With success (limitless fashion spend at Lanvin) or failure (Amex Centurion card declined at Burberry) determined by the throw of a diamante dice, this is a game for people who want to play at being the celebrity progeny of billionair­es.

I’m not sure if Hasbro will go for it, but using Monopoly icons for inspiratio­n, the little dog has been allotted to hotel heiress and chihuahua enthusiast Paris Hilton; the racing-car to Formula One’s Tamara Ecclestone; the thimble to Dylan Lauren, daughter of designer Ralph, and the shoe has gone to Chloe Green. The shoe is an obvious fit for the eldest child of high street mogul Sir Phillip Green.

Not only is Chloe, 21, a self-confessed shoe-aholic with 200 pairs in her closet, she also has her own signature shoe line — CJG — at Top Shop and her second collection is now in store.

For her first foray into footwear last May, Chloe Jade Green was assisted by a team of buyers and designers who helped to turn the ideas on her mood boards into the towering wedges and sky-scraper heels that made up her eight-piece collection, named after family and friends.

“I went through magazines and boxes of fabric swatches, vintage trims, studs, everything to find inspiratio­n, and pinned up anything I loved,” she reveals. “Holding the first sample of a shoe I designed on a piece of paper is the best feeling.”

Of course, Chloe has her detractors, as all heiresses do, but bitter style bloggers and envious fashion graduates who can’t get a job pinning hems didn’t get in the way of the good reviews she got for her shoes with jade green soles, which are her homage to Christian Louboutin’s red ones.

“I have 70 pairs of his,” said Chloe, who once met her heel hero, Louboutin, at a ball, where her father, Sir Phillip, told him: “This is my daughter. She must be one of your best customers”. A confirmed daddy’s girl, Chloe says that she speaks to the Arcadia boss about 20 times a day.

“To a point where, when we finally see each other there is nothing left to say,” adds the designer, who has been sitting in on company board meetings since she was 10.

“When people put us together we are identical. We only have to look at one another to know what the other one is thinking.” They also like a lot of the same people, notably Simon Cowell, the Kardashian­s and let’s not forget Kate Moss who’s only complaint about the first CJG collection was that the heels

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