Above photography by Mike Spears
CRISTIE ALFIE was created in central park one summer day while waiting for Tegan & Sara to come on stage. Bored, desperately missing her best girlfriend in Provence, surrounded by other girls with their best
girlfriends, she appeared in a hand bound silk covered journal small enough to fit in a back pocket.
At first she was picking gigantic daisies complaining about boys she loathed and then she began recounting many funny memories worthy of sharing like --- the
Christmas that she sat on every possible Santa clause lap asking for a "boom box" which she could carry on her shoulder like the boys on MTV --- or the time in Montreal with Melissa when the rude
French waiter brought over nothing which they ordered but insisted what he brought was even better ---- oh and the time she was carrying a huge watermelon back to her apartment in Midtown and the cute boy in her building that she was dying to speak to noticed and carried it the rest of the way home.
Cristie Alfie believes in experiencing as much as life has to offer from traveling where you can not understand
a word anyone is saying to eating exotic foods - getting down to rock and roll - dancing with your shoes off to
world beats - meeting boys - meeting girls - meeting old boys and girls...and having the
perfect bag for all of it.
Fashion does not even have to be an issue (unless you want it to be)
Before "fashion" was even in our vocabulary people were carrying around "bags". From scarves tied on sticks and hides tied together, bags serve a basic human need --- to carry around all this stuff we can not live without!!!!
From all of her wild (and tame) experiences and a life time of carrying handbags
CRISTIE ALFIE introduces a collection for big adventures as well as small ones.
...and they are all just a little bit "cute" for which all the girls keep asking.