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Runway Couture: Monique L'Huillier

Monique Lhuillier is a Filipina fashion designer based in Los Angeles.

Her parents sent her to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), where she met her future husband, Tom Bugbee. The couple founded their company in 1996 and launched their first bridal collection. The line was well-received by fashion-savvy brides, editors, and celebrities.

Her break came after Monique designed the gowns for her own wedding entourage.

These captured the fancy of couture circles. Having had a difficult time finding her own wedding gown, Lhuillier, a 23-year-old newlywed at the time, decided to begin sketching her own line of dresses. Her husband figured this was little more than a hobby, one that she would tire of soon enough. "He thought I had the wedding blues and eventually I'd get over it", she told USA WEEKEND Magazine.

Lhuillier designed gowns for Carrie Underwood, Kristen Stewart, Christine Baumgartner, Britney Spears, Sarah Gore[4], Giuliana DePandi[5], Allison Munn, Shanna Moakler, and Heidi Montag[6] Also, one of her gowns was worn by Hilary Duff in A Cinderella Story.

Subsequently Lhuillier added prom and homecoming dresses to her line, and several of her efforts showed up on red carpets before awards shows. For the Fall 2007 season she branched off into more typical runway collections.

On September 18, 2007, Monique Lhuillier launched her spring collection at New York Fashion Week. She introduced mostly sophisticated and fluid looks. Specifically, the Spring collection included: "ready-to-wear prom dresses, homecoming formals and cocktail dresses, a collection characterized by ruffles, bows, and pleats in soft fabric and candy colors of vanilla, mint, pistachio and butterscotch."

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