Cash-strapped Scots fashionistas are expected to turn out in droves to buy designer shoes from high-street clothes chain H&M when they go on sale today.

The Jimmy Choo range will be available in 19 stores across the UK and Ireland, including the branch at Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

Choo shoes usually cost hundreds of pounds with some pairs retailing at more than £800. In contrast, the label’s collection for H&M, which also includes clothing, bags and men’s shoes, features zebra-print sandals and lattice-style high heels and range in price from less than £70 to £179.

Tamara Mellon, founder and president of Jimmy Choo, said: “The Jimmy Choo collection for H&M is full of fun, one-off items with an accessible and glamorous identity made with stylish materials, emphasised with colour and embellishment.

“I wanted to create pieces that would reach a cool and young customer with a fashionable and independent sense of spirit in this one-off collaboration.”

Margareta van den Bosch, creative adviser at H&M, said: “I love the really high strappy sandals with lots of decoration and attitude, matched with clean-cut, 80s-inspired clothes.”

It is not the first time the high-street chain has teamed up with famous names. H&M has previously collaborated with Stella McCartney, Karl Lagerfeld and Matthew Williamson, among others.

Staff at the Glasgow H&M outlet will brace themselves for Choo mania barely just days after the opening of a new flagship store.

The ribbon was cut on Scotland’s biggest branch of H&M at noon on Thursday, giving hundreds of shoppers a first glimpse of the new site.

Celebrities got in on the act early at the company’s Regent Street store in central London last night.

Singers Sophie Ellis Bextor and Little Boots attended a launch party along with Scots TV presenter Jenni Falconer, X Factor winner Alexandra Burke and Choo himself.

A spokeswoman for H&M said she expected stores around the country stocking the new range to be busy today.

Besides the Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries, stores include Manchester’s Trafford Centre, the Bullring Centre in Birmingham, Bluewater, and nine shops in London.

The first 160 people in a queue will get wristbands to control the crowds, with shoppers allocated 10-minute slots to get their hands on the new collection.