"I love the idea that you can take something that old and make it into something new again."

This "spring preview 2013" edition of V features a profile of Monique's work with dinosaur bones sourced from a Colorado plateau ~ where the perfect storm of geological conditions have created colorful, mineralized bones. The designer sources these rare, fossilized materials to make her fine jewelry that brings modern design to artifacts that are 150 million year old! History has never looked so good.

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These one-of-a-kind cufflinks are part of Monique's HOMME Collection. The striking stone? Fossilized woolly mammoth teeth.

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