Here is some great press we have gotten over the years...if you can't sleep tonight...we have just the thing....read on...Best, Alice
A few articles that are not up at this time: Women's Wear Daily, Accessories Magazine, Giftwear Magazine, Corcoran Gallery of Art Newsletter, etc.
Client List:
Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day Lewis, Alec Baldwin, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Chastain, Tina Fey, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Hunt, Jessica Lange, Kevin Costner, Jon Hamm, Ang Lee, Sally Field, Quintin Tarantino, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Ann Hathaway, Denzel Washington, Dyan Cannon, Diane Rehm, Alan Cummin, Ali McGraw, Caroline Thompson, Sofia Vergara, Dexter, Lorne Michaels, Zooey Deschanel,Edie Falco, Amy Poehler, Melissa McCarthy, Julia Louise-Dreyfus, Don Cheadle, Larry David, Kristin Wiig, Jon Cryer, Margaret Cho, Elizabeth Banks, Kathy Bates, Michael J. Fox, Greg Kinnear, Jimmy Fallon., Elizabeth Moss, Glenn Close, Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Bryan Cranston, Hugh Bonneville, Damien Lewis, Christina Hendricks, Christine Baranski,, Aaron Paul, Joan Cusack, Uma Thurmon, Julia Ormond, Martha Plimpton, Jason Ritter, and more more more
PRESS:
The Bluffton Packet, May 11, 2000
By Jacob Preston
(The actual article is below somewhere on this page. :) )
"Fearless' Lowcountry woman becomes national handbag star.
Everyone always knew Alice Monroney would someday be a star.
There was no doubt about it. She was bright, energetic and most of all, fearless - absolutely fearless.
She left the Lowcountry 10 years ago because she couldn't seem to find that last piece of the puzzle, the ability to focus all her great gifts into the sustained light of success.
Apparently, the last piece of the puzzle was simply altitude.
After a bit of time on the road, the Alice Monroney personal and professional circus landed in the mile-high city of Denver, and the rest is art business history.
The altitude - or something in the cool, dry Denver environment - allowed Alice's long-simmering but diffused creativity to come into focus.
The most recent and most enduring manifestation is this creativity is Alice's Tapestries, a company manufacturing and marketing semi-custom women's handbags and totes. This wildly successful young company is headed by our own Alice Monroney, who also serves as chief designer.
Objects from Alice's Tapestries are not only featured in upscale shops (more than 600 as of 2012) from coast to coast, but are shown in galleries as "wearable fiber art."
In fact, there are two shows hanging at the moment, one at the Bayeaux Gallery in Denver and another at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which include work designed by Alice Monroney and executed by her company.
The good news is this: At the close of the show in Washington, Alice will make an appearance at the Bluffton Village Festival, complete with a stash of ultra cool bags, the newest of the new designs.
Not only will we get to see our old friend and home girl, we will get to see what all the commotion is about with these handbags.
It is always heartening when good people are successful, especially good people who struggle to find that success.
Alice was a person who fit in socially nearly everywhere, from patrician Washington political family background to the funky, informal young community around Bluffton and Hilton Head in the 70's and early 80's.
Professionally, it was another story. Alice Monroney had literally dozens of jobs , scores of potential careers, none of which ever fit her somewhat outlandish personality.
I guess she is one of those folks, like me, who are essentially unemployable. We either make our own jobs, or we don't have the wondrous opportunities of work.
At the helm of a growing, successful company, Alice is philosophical about the old days.
She notes, "Just because you don't know where you are going, doesn't mean you aren't on your way."
Fortunately, for us, the way goes through Bluffton.
Jacob Preston is Bluffon's tallest potter, performance artist and ultra-small cap business analyst. His studio is on Church Street in "old Bluffton.'
By Jacob Preston
(The actual article is below somewhere on this page. :) )
"Fearless' Lowcountry woman becomes national handbag star.
Everyone always knew Alice Monroney would someday be a star.
There was no doubt about it. She was bright, energetic and most of all, fearless - absolutely fearless.
She left the Lowcountry 10 years ago because she couldn't seem to find that last piece of the puzzle, the ability to focus all her great gifts into the sustained light of success.
Apparently, the last piece of the puzzle was simply altitude.
After a bit of time on the road, the Alice Monroney personal and professional circus landed in the mile-high city of Denver, and the rest is art business history.
The altitude - or something in the cool, dry Denver environment - allowed Alice's long-simmering but diffused creativity to come into focus.
The most recent and most enduring manifestation is this creativity is Alice's Tapestries, a company manufacturing and marketing semi-custom women's handbags and totes. This wildly successful young company is headed by our own Alice Monroney, who also serves as chief designer.
Objects from Alice's Tapestries are not only featured in upscale shops (more than 600 as of 2012) from coast to coast, but are shown in galleries as "wearable fiber art."
In fact, there are two shows hanging at the moment, one at the Bayeaux Gallery in Denver and another at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which include work designed by Alice Monroney and executed by her company.
The good news is this: At the close of the show in Washington, Alice will make an appearance at the Bluffton Village Festival, complete with a stash of ultra cool bags, the newest of the new designs.
Not only will we get to see our old friend and home girl, we will get to see what all the commotion is about with these handbags.
It is always heartening when good people are successful, especially good people who struggle to find that success.
Alice was a person who fit in socially nearly everywhere, from patrician Washington political family background to the funky, informal young community around Bluffton and Hilton Head in the 70's and early 80's.
Professionally, it was another story. Alice Monroney had literally dozens of jobs , scores of potential careers, none of which ever fit her somewhat outlandish personality.
I guess she is one of those folks, like me, who are essentially unemployable. We either make our own jobs, or we don't have the wondrous opportunities of work.
At the helm of a growing, successful company, Alice is philosophical about the old days.
She notes, "Just because you don't know where you are going, doesn't mean you aren't on your way."
Fortunately, for us, the way goes through Bluffton.
Jacob Preston is Bluffon's tallest potter, performance artist and ultra-small cap business analyst. His studio is on Church Street in "old Bluffton.'
The Denver Post wrote up all of us bag designers at the time in Denver...I got to be "...matriarch of Colorado Handbag Designers." :
Below as my brief stint as Editor for Fashion Group International of Denver newsletter in the Summer of 2003...I got to write my own thing...really enjoyed it, though not sure it was what they had in mind. Sometimes, I can't help myself.
Below is my favorite article.
Below is the first article ever written about Alice's Tapestries and Me. I was a little concerned I would be recognized in the grocery store. Didn't happen. I was very grateful for the press. Suzanne Brown was the journalist for the later Denver Post article, as well.
This was a milestone. I loved this award. Westword "Best of..." continues to be a great city accolade. I had absolutely no idea until it came out that I was being considered. Fun.
This was quite nice. :)
