Couture Cruiser™ brings you the opportunity to customize your bicycle with designer fashionable bike basket liner tote bags, matching retro headbands, and other fashions to come. Now you can express yourself while you cruise in style whether it's down the boardwalk, to school, work, the market, or in the neighborhood. Look stylish cruising with a quality bicycle basket liner made of designer fabric that converts to a tote bag. When you reach your destination on your bike,
just pull out the basket liner and you now have a tote bag.
CC's basket liner tote bags bring you convenience, comfort, and safety by not having to carry anything. They keep your belongings organized and safe from falling out the wide slots on standard metal bike baskets. It's the perfect accessory for carrying beach essentials, keys, cell phone, wallet, or groceries while in route.
Couture Cruiser's cool basket liner tote bags are on the cutting edge of fashion and style for bikes. Couture Cruiser delivers well made quality
products that you can be proud to own. Hopefully you will find
something unique that matches your personal style that you can enjoy for a long
time!
The Couture Cruiser™ collection is designed by Carol, a Southern California native who finds inspiration from the coastal lifestyle as well as her international travels. Her love of fashion, art, and music inspire her to sketch and paint to discover new design inspirations. Her free-spirit savvy led her to launch Couture Cruiser so she could bring fashion to women and girls who ride bikes so that everyone can look stylish while riding their bicycle.
Carol hopes that the future will see Couture Cruiser appeal to a broader audience and benefit foundations such as Women for Women International (see below) and the California Coastal Commission. Waste less with this eco-friendly, reusable, washable bag and take it to run errands or to the market to pick up a few items. Carol hopes that people who live in bike friendly towns will ride their bikes more often whether to promote energy conservation, the green movement, fitness, or cost effectiveness.
Ride carefully and Roll in Style™!
Love, Carol xoxo
Background
Carol holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from California State University Fullerton. She got a flavor of her passions in various business industries while working at KPMG LLC for clients such as Guess, Sketchers, and Creative Artists Agency (CAA). She worked in corporate America for several years with various private and publicly traded fortune 500 companies such as Pacific Life, Bergen Brunswig, Verio, and others in management consulting, business development, accounting, and financial analysis.
In the fashion industry, Carol marketed various fashion lines by other designers including NaNa's (evolved through collaboration with denim powerhouse Frankie B), and was successful in bringing this line to Nordstrom's flagship stores such as South Coast Plaza, San Fransisco, and Dallas. Carol attended the trade show "MAGIC" for several years, the preeminent trade event in the international fashion industry which celebrates 75 years of fashion leadership in 2008. MAGIC truly inspired Carol while she worked in the hip Edge section of the show which caters to up and coming designers who gather in lounge vibe settings throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center exhibition hall to collaborate, introduce their new fashion lines, showcase their latest trends, watch fashion shows, and see what's about to come to market in the fashion industry. Couture Cruiser allows Carol to weave together her entrepreneurial spirit with her love of fashion, design, art, and the enjoyment of life's simple pleasures such as a bicycle ride.
Throughout her life, Carol has traveled to many places including Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Australia, Fiji, the Caribbean Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, US, Canada, and Mexico. She appreciates the use of bicycles as a means of transportation means throughout towns and villages around the world. She has always enjoyed painting and is inspired by fine art, music, fashion, photography, architecture, design, travel, culture, and nature.
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MAKE A DIFFERENCE TODAY
Founded in 1993, Women for Women International helps women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives by providing financial and emotional support, job skills training, rights awareness and leadership education and access to business skills, capital and markets. Through the program, women become confident, independent and productive as they embrace the importance of their roles in rebuilding their families, their communities and ultimately, their nations.
Changing Lives
We help women advance from being victims to attaining stability as survivors to becoming active citizens in their communities. By joining Women for Women International, thousands of women have:
- Found new hope
- Gained or enhanced skills relevant to their local economies
- Learned how to value the importance of their roles and rights in society
- Started businesses
- Sent their children to school
- Registered to vote
Since 1993, Women for Women International has:
- Served more than 93,000 women
- Distributed approximately $32 million in direct aid and microcredit loans
Since our inception, Women for Women International has moved 93,000 women from crisis to stability to active citizenship. Active citizenship takes many forms. For example, in Afghanistan we helped women understand the importance of voting and registered more than 2,000 women to vote in the historic presidential elections. In Nigeria, women have organized themselves to end oppressive widowhood practices and female genital cutting in their communities. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, 9,686 women are moving towards economic self-sufficiency through our microcredit program. These accomplishments are noteworthy because on both the micro and macro levels, women are making incremental yet sweeping changes in their communities and countries.
You can make a difference!
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