{"id":1836,"date":"2010-09-09T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T06:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2010-09-09T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T06:54:14","slug":"crafting-a-career-in-eco-chic-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/crafting-a-career-in-eco-chic-jewelry","title":{"rendered":"Crafting a Career in Eco-Chic Jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1837 alignright\" title=\"monique-pean\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/monique-pean-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/monique-pean-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/monique-pean-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/monique-pean.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>After her sister died in a car accident, Monique P\u00e9an started making jewelry as a form of therapy. The former investment analyst spent $30,000 of her savings to buy a piece of fossilized woolly mammoth tusk from the Arctic Circle as material. Eventually she quit her job to start her own jewelry company.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to two industry awards &#8211; and buzz following Michelle Obama&#8217;s decision to  wear a P\u00e9an necklace to a state dinner\u2014the business has grown 136% in  the past year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>P\u00e9an&#8217;s  Haitian father worked for the UN so she travelled frequently.\u00a0 Growing up in Washington D.C. she was drawn by the art  and cultures of the many countries she&#8217;s visited like Haiti, Egypt, Bali, Malawi and Russia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In addition to making her mark in the fashion world, P\u00e9an strives to be socially responsible by keeping her line eco-friendly in addition to being innovative and stylish.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just last year she was awarded with two prestigious awards. P\u00e9an was a winner of the Eco Domani Fashion Foundation and a runner-up at the CDFDA Vogue Fashion Fund.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A love for the arts and design led former investment analyst Monique P\u00e9an to start her own jewelry company. Now Michelle Obama wears her pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}