Alyce Designs
Black Label Collection, Bridal Collection, Diva Collection, and Alyce AtelierBiography
Alyce Designs is a 40-year-old, family-owned and team-driven manufacturer of women’s evening wear. Alyce Designs has been nationally recognized for their “Distinguished Excellence” in prom, bridal, and special occasion dresses. Alyce Hamm, a native of Alsace-Lorraine, France, opened Alyce Designs in 1967 with her brother Jean-Paul Hamm, the company’s President and C.E.O. In 1955, Alyce emigrated to the United States from Paris, where she trained as a costume designer at the prestigious Paris Ecole de Couture. Says Alyce, “It was a dream for me that my company become internationally successful. My designs are worn by women around the world.”
Alyce herself is now semi-retired; she travels around the globe and enjoys the fruits of her immense success. Jean-Paul Hamm remains at the helm as the company’s fearless commander-in-chief. Jean-Paul has contributed staggering amounts of logistics, innovation and ideas that have revolutionized and morphed a once-fledgling national industry into an international trade. He is eager to pass on the baton to the next generation that includes co-designers daughter Claudine and niece Nathalie. Alyce maintains a network of national showrooms and international representatives in Europe, South America and the Middle East. Recently, the ever-expanding company introduced several new collections, including a couture gowns division, “Black Label Collection”, an avant-garde wedding division, “The Bridal Collection”, and an upscale pageant division, “The Diva Collection”.
The result of this prodigious, long-term effort? An extensive national award-winning manufacturer: 20 DEBI awards, a Chicago Designer of the Year Award, a Manufacturer of the Year Award, numerous DIVA awards, and a Desert Rose Award.
Women in the public eye look to Alyce for our unique designs and elegant styles. Alyce gowns have appeared on: Carol Burnett in Robert Altman’s classic movie “A Wedding”, Meg Ryan in “When Harry Met Sally”, Denise Richards in “Drop Dead Gorgeous”, Olympian figure skater Barbara Ann Scott, Miss USA, Miss France, Miss Universe, Miss World, international royalty and diplomats, Illinois governors’ and mayors’ wives and so on; we even spotted a picture of Britney Spears in an Alyce gown at a prom she attended!.
