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Marilyn Cooperman is a jewelry designer whose fashion background underlies the appealing color sense and drama of her spectacular jewels. She works in series, often inspired by natural forms—birds, crustaceans and flowers – but she is equally comfortable working in abstraction, as with her popular oxidized sterling, gold and diamond bracelets and earrings.
Born in Canada, Marilyn began her fashion career as a fashion illustrator for the New Zealand Herald. She moved to New York, working as a fashion designer, eventually opening her own label, Max and Marilyn, which she continued until being lured to the publishing world, as fashion director for Seventeen magazine, then editor-in-chief of Simplicity Magazine, and then Vogue Patterns.
In 1987 her lifelong friend jeweler Fred Leighton asked her to join his company as designer, and seven years later she launched her own company. Her unique work is in many private collections, including Ivana Trump, Danielle Steel, Princess Firyal of Jordan and Jayne Wrightsman. Her work has been published in numerous books, including “Brooches: Timeless Adornment” by Lori Ettlinger Gross, “Extraordinary Jewels” by John Traina, and “The Jeweled Menagerie” by Suzanne Tennenbaum and Janet Zapata.
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