Marlo Laz

Marlo Laz

Jesse Marlo Lazowski grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, learning antique jewelry from her great-aunt before a trip to Jaipur, India in 2012 sent her to work directly with local artisans, and she launched Marlo Laz in New York in 2014 with a coin-inspired design called the Talisman. After studying at the Gemological Institute of America and apprenticing with a manufacturer in Manhattan's Diamond District, she built a line around symbols collected on her travels, hearts, eyes, elephants, horseshoes, that read as universal rather than tied to one culture.

Jewelry

Lazowski turned a bat mitzvah brooch into a necklace at thirteen, which is about as early a start as a jewelry career gets, and the instinct to rework old forms into something wearable now still runs through this grid. Coins, eyes and other talisman shapes recur because she has been collecting them since her twenties. The pieces read as personal rather than seasonal.

More Jewelry

A further stretch of the same symbol-driven approach that has carried the label since its 2014 launch, now made entirely in New York City rather than the Jaipur workshops where Lazowski first learned production. Diamonds appear in small amounts throughout, a habit she has kept since her earliest designs.

Our honest take

A decade in, Marlo Laz still runs on the same premise it started with: charms and symbols that supposedly cross borders and cultures. That is a big claim for a piece of jewelry to carry, but two New York boutiques and a decade of steady growth suggest customers are buying the story along with the metal.