May Mon Aye is a recent alumni of the prestigious design school “Massachusetts College of Art and Design”, where she earned a Bachelors Degree with “honors distinction” in Fine Arts for Fashion Design. May Mon Aye received a scholarship for $10,000 for winning first prize in “The Catholic Charities’ Laboure’ Design Contest for her design interpretation of “The Little Black Dress”. A full-page article on September 28, 2008 was written in the Style section of the Boston Globe about the Laboure Design Contest winners, focusing on May Mon Aye and her winning Little Black Dress design. May is currently the head designer at Sterling Wear of Boston, where her variations on their “pea-coat” designs are being produced and sold in their store.

May Mon Aye has always loved fashion and everything about fashion since she was a little girl. She began with designing for two-dimensional paper dolls, moving on to three-dimensional designing for Barbie dolls. As an adult, May Mon Aye has been on a dedicated and relentless mission to acquire knowledge and skill in the creative and technical design aspects of fashion. It is May’s commitment to technical precision and fit that allows monaye designs to create tailored, professional garments down to the finest detail.

May was born in Myanmar formerly known as Burma. The Burmese culture is what defines May Mon Aye as a person as well as a designer – continuously drawing inspiration from the many unique characteristics in Burmese culture which is supplemented with inspiration from the vast reservoirs of earth’s natural beauties found around the world. May Mon Aye possesses unyielding love for the entire fashion design process of bringing her illustrations to life and seeing the joy it brings to others when her designs become a part of their life!