Alina + Grace

Mandy Chang is a San Francisco based designer who takes deep influence from her years living in Singapore and Paris. She spent several years in the finance industry, where she saw the need for creative yet elegant work bags. Wanting to turn her designs into reality, she studied traditional fine leatherworking and handbag construction. Her signature design "Pushing the Envelope" won top award under Mandy Chang Design Studio at the 2015 Independent Handbag Designer Awards, after which she decided to pursue handbag design full-time. Mandy Chang officially launched Alina + Grace at the end of 2016, and introduced her first collection of work-functional handbags, entitled San Francisco Sentiments.