She's originally from PR. Monique is a really successful fine jewelry designer also well loved by Vogue...she does a whole eco-friendly thing with exotic materials like fossilized Wolly Mammoth ivory that she excavates from glaciers or something...she's all about using cool materials that don't harm animals or the environment. Ditto for the diamonds she uses - they are "conflict" and "devastation" free. She won a CFDA award last year for her jewelry and just had a collaboration wit the Gap.