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Deborah Marquit born in Brooklyn, New York, is an independent American fashion designer and an eponymous brand, Deborah Marquit™, specializing in women's couture, intimate apparel (lingerie). Marquit is the first known fashion designer to introduce the use of fluorescent (neon) colors in the creation of women's foundation garments (bras and underwear). In 1984, Marquit pioneered the concept of high-fashion in lingerie disrupting traditional ideas around undergarments. This innovation earned her first sale to seventeen Bloomingdale's stores across the United States that launched her brand globally. Beginning in 1985, Marquit introduces fashion fabrics to intimate apparel to add to her vision of conceptual bras and underwear made with atypical fabrics, and to express an ironic point of view, in camouflage print, pleather, and denim, initiating the idea of wearing lingerie as clothing.
The Deborah Marquit™ label has evolved into an international brand selling through both retail and wholesale channels such as Barney's, Bergdorf Goodman, Net-a-Porter, Matchesfashion.com, Yoox.com, Azaleas, Only Hearts, Soho House Berlin, and many others.
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Company slogan: "light your body, illuminate the path"
In the media, Deborah Marquit's designs are featured in fashion editorials and photographed by Ellen von Unwerth, Mario Sorrenti, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, Terry Richardson, appearing in magazines, New York Times, Carine Roitfeld's CR Fashion Book, Nylon, W, Interview, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and GQ. Marquit creates lingerie for Rihanna, Scarlett Johansson, Kim Kardashian and Zoë Kravitz.
Deborah Marquit was inducted into the (CFDA) Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2009
Career
1990 - Deborah Marquit lingerie was featured in collaboration with London-based clothing line Ghost in a runway show at '7th on Sixth".
1990 - Madonna appears wearing Marquit's red lace bra and g-string with the American flag for MTV's Rock-the-Vote video commercial, directed by Paula Greif.
1994- Marquit created the navy blue and white bandana print bustier for Uma Thurman that appears in the resuscitation scene of Quentin Tarantino's, Pulp Fiction.
1994 - Marquit was commissioned to produce her black faux patent leather bra and underwear for Madonna to wear on the cover of Esquire magazine, styled by Arianne Phillips.
1994 - Marquit was commissioned by film director Tim Burton to produce her clothing collection including couture lingerie for actress Lisa Marie Smith.
1994 - Marquit was commissioned to create a black vinyl bra and thong for Madonna that appears in the Human Nature' video .
1996 - Marquit was commissioned to produce a hologram vinyl bra ensemble for Sarah Jessica Parker to wear when captured by Martians in Tim Burton's film Mars Attacks.
2002- Deborah Marquit's fluorescent orange bra and underwear are featured by the character Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) in the "All that Glitters" episode, of HBO's Sex and the City, styled by Patricia Field.
2008 - in a collaboration with L.A.M.B. clothing line in 2010, models walked the runway wearing Deborah Marquit lingerie (bras) under Gwen Stefani’s clothing designs. Stefani adopted a signature style wearing Deborah Marquit fluorescent lace bras as did Brazilian actress Carolina Dieckmann.
2009 - Singer, songwriter M.I.A. appeared on the Grammy Awards, wearing a blue dress whose decolleté reveals a Deborah Marquit fluorescent yellow lace bra.
2010 - Marquit was commissioned to produce her black faux patent leather bra for Madonna's Sticky and Sweet album cover and tour
2010 - Sarah Jessica Parker appeared on The Tonight Show, with host, David Letterman revealing a Deborah Marquit electric violet lace bra under a zebra sheath dress.
2016 - Marquit was commissioned to create lingerie for Rihanna's personal wardrobe and tour.
2016 - Marquit was commissioned to create lingerie for Scarlett Johansson for the film Ghost in the Shell.
2017 - Marquit lingerie appears in CR Fashion Book and is commissioned by actress Zoë Kravitz for personal wardrobe and film.
Early career
Deborah Marquit began her career as a staff fashion illustrator for Women's Wear Daily of Fairchild Publications from 1977-1984 before moving into the fashion retail market. She was among staff artists, Robert Melendez, Robert Passantino, Pedro Barrios, Kenneth Paul Block, Charles Boone, Kichi Ogawa, Catherine Clayton Purnell and Steven Meisel.