Deborah Marquit was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on November 22, 1954. After graduating from the High School of Art and Design with honors, she entered Parson’s School of Design, studying fashion design and illustration. Upon graduating from Parson’s, Marquit’s first position was as a fashion illustrator for Women’s Wear Daily. However, after seven years, she left to pursue her own business and created her first lingerie collection.

In 1984. for a woman to reveal her bra was still considered daring, and retailers offered women restrictive and limited utilitarian styles in only black, white or beige colors. It was then that Marquit created the first foundation garments in fluorescent lace colors to wear ironically as a feminist fashion statement in rebellion against the status quo.

The innovation of bras and briefs in Neons: Pink, Yellow, Orange, and Lime, pioneered the concept of underwear as outerwear and earned her first sale to seventeen Bloomingdale’s stores across the USA that launched her brand.

In 1985, breaking further from tradition, Marquit was the first designer to introduce bras in Camouflage print, Faux Patent Leather, Denim, and Lamé, initiating fashion into the intimate apparel marketplace. By 1989, the collection was sold to 300 boutiques and department stores worldwide.

Frequently featured in the media, Marquit’s designs are notable for their trademark silhouette and iconic bold color expression. The premise is to provide clean, modern underpinnings that strike a balance between innerwear and outerwear to wear privately or strategically revealed.

The sultry silhouettes of the collection evoke a playful drama celebrating femininity and the free spirit. Handcrafted with technical engineering and precise draping techniques, the classic styles enhance the body’s natural beauty with mastery, artistry, an unparalleled aesthetic.

Bra making requires numerous types of machinery and patternmaking involving architecture and physics, employing materials to serve the body considering movement, weight, gravity, and symmetry combined to provide undergarments that define a shapely profile.

Located in Manhattan, New York, the manufacturing team produces each piece dedicated to high quality, precision, and care.

Among those loyal to the brand are Zoe Kravitz, Rihanna, Gretchen Mol, Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei, M.I.A., Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon, Nicole Kidman, Stella Schnabel, and make-up artist Bobbi Brown.

Editorial features include Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Glamour, Interview, Nylon, T, The New York Times, W Magazine, Esquire, L’Official, GQ, CR Fashionbook, Details, V Magazine, LOVE, Re-Edition, Marie Claire, I-D, Vice, The Face, Spin, Playboy, Max, Wonderland, Self Service, Vanity Fair, and Rollingstone.

Company slogan; “Light your body, Illuminate the path.”

Deborah Marquit was inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2009.