Monique Lhuillier was born to Michel J. Lhuillier, a Vietnam-born Filipino businessman and Amparito Llamas, a Filipino and former model of Spanish descent. She grew up in Cebu City and studied at Saint Theresa's College, continuing on to the Chateau Mont-Choisi finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Monique Lhuillier moved to Los Angeles to study design at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM). Monique Lhuillier married to Tom Bugbee on 1996.
Monique Lhuillier was invited to be a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2003. She received the Presidential Medal of Merit from the Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2006.
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