"A picture-of a loved one, a friend, a child, a pet, your husband, wife, mother or father. An image of the whole family, or somebody who is gone but not forgotten. A reunion, anniversary, birthday, a great moment at the office! These fond portraits are the hallmark of handbags and accessories by GINA ALEXANDER.
This L.A.-based designer has created a line of handbags and other kinds of accessories that allow the customer to design these unique pieces with their personal photos, mementos that travel with you each day, reminding you of the people, places and things you love! A GINA ALEXANDER Photo Bag is a lot of fun and an absolutely necessary accessory. With Mother’s Day coming the options are endless!
GINA ALEXANDER and team oversee the various lines available through the company: Handbags, Small Accessories, Men's, Baby, and more. Most recently, via a licensing deal with Janie Hendrix (the sister of Jimi Hendrix), GINA ALEXANDER has created a line of Jimi Hendrix photo bags (both leather and fabric) and limited-edition, numbered leather jackets with rarely-before-seen images of the musician taken onstage at concerts like Winterland in 1968, Waikiki in 1969 and Arco - Sacramento in 1970 by well-known rock photographer Robert M. Knight. Gina also designed the handbags for celebrities and musicians at The Grammy Awards, Oscars, and American Music Awards.
Every GINA ALEXANDER Photo Bag, and all her accessories, is made from the finest materials, hand-crafted, beautiful and lasting. Gorgeous on their own, the bags are even more dear when decorated with your own personal touch, your MIP-Most-Important Photo.
GINA ALEXANDER is a fashion veteran, Merchandise Marketing Major at FIDM and studied Fashion in Europe, apprenticing with LA-based fashion houses, and design assistant to Isabella Fiore and other accessory designers. She opened her own stores in 1999 at the Hollywood & Highland Retail complex and The Grove. Now, with a growing company, GINA ALEXANDER's Photo Bags have been sold through Nordstrom, Macy’s, ICE Accessories and Saks Inc. department stores 40+ boutiques nationwide and over 1,200 professional photography studios worldwide. A recent appearance of GINA with her Photo Bags on the Home Shopping Network and QVC (available in 90 million homes) was a huge success, selling out in record time.
GINA's handbags have appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, and the designer was interviewed numerous times by OPRAH! Media about GINA ALEXANDER and her Photo Bags has appeared in: ELLE, PEOPLE MAGAZINE and US MAGAZINE, to name a few.
GINA ALEXANDER works consistently with many celebrities creating their dream Photo Bags, including: Tiger Woods, Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, Pussycat Dolls, Victoria Rowell of The Young and The Restless, Faith Hill, Kelly Ripa, The Black-Eyed Peas, Penelope Cruz, Ashanti, John Legend, Ticara, Glady’s Knight, The Hendrix Family, Quincy Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Fergie, The Princess of Cambodia, The Cast of Mamma Mia, The Cast of color Purple, Tisha Campbell, The Wayan Brothers, Dancing with the Stars, Oprah, Halle Berry, Wil Smith, Gretchen Wilson, Slash, The Baraquio Sisters, Miss America Angela Baraquio, The Bachelorette, Chilli of TLC, Lisa Marie Presley, Michael Jackson, Snoop Dog, Fifty Cent, Eminem, Green Day, Maroon 5, Boo Yaa Tribe, Sugarland, Sharon Stone, Victoria Rowell, Tim Mcgraw, Barbara Mandell, NaLeo of Hawaii, and recently Gina worked with Kobe Bryant for 2 weeks Kobe says “ this is what my wife wants for Christmas”.
GINA ALEXANDER was approached by Photographer James Hill and his lovely wife Michelle who shared stories with their experience with working with NILMDTS and Gina immediately said I wanna help! Gina and her husband Richard both experienced 3 losses during invitro and surrogacy, and an adoption where the mother took the baby back. Gina now supports 50 abused children in the Philippines and raise over 20,000.00 for rehabilitation programs.
Gina started her business to raise money for her first adoption with Katelyn, she never knew her company would become this successful. Gina definitely has a giving heart, that is what she is all about…. And is excited about the partnership with Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. These are the causes that are dear to her heart as she herself express her healing process through the handbags that have encouraged a universe."