Bravo Monique! And How We May Have Helped…

Monique put us to the challenge when she asked us to design a book to showcase her jewelry and unique story for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition. We were told that judges (AKA Anna Wintour) scrutinize every detail of these books, so we took that very seriously and put all of our efforts into making it as perfect as we could! We designed an over-sized book with 25,000 year old Mammoth bone pieces from Antarctica in-laid into the cover. The book was beautifully bound by Paper Dragon Books. We hope the book was partially responsible for getting her into the top 10 position and ultimately to the top 3!

Once the challenges intensified, she was asked to design a necklace to be sold at the Google store! She came up with the idea to take the google mantra “Don’t Be Evil,” and etch it into 12 mammoth pieces to be created in to a necklace. We jumped at the idea of a jewelry collaboration and illustrated the phrase in 12 different languages from Cuneiform to English. For being inspired by Google, we think it turned out to be quite an elegant piece!

Monique heads the trend, say our friends at R29. Monique’s necklace for Google which we helped to design, was called out today on Refinery’s Fashion Blog. See what they had to say here.

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