The Interview —

Jennifer Fisher, Creative Director and Founder of Jennifer Fisher Jewelry

I was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California. I began my career as a wardrobe stylist working on feature films, television shows, and commercials in both New York and Los Angeles. After college, I worked as a wardrobe stylist for 10 years for national ad campaigns like American Express and Budweiser. It wasn’t glamorous but paid better than fashion jobs—I had teams of girls working for me and could easily juggle two, three, and even four jobs at a time. After 10 years of dressing and styling Hollywood, I met my husband, Kevin, and we settled in New York City, where my company is now based. I was living and styling in NYC for an LA-based director when I was diagnosed with a desmoid tumor. I went through multiple rounds of chemotherapy, to shrink my tumor, all the while working on ad jobs. This is when my husband Kevin, who you may know through my Instagram stories, proposed to me. He actually popped the question on Halloween night right before we were about to throw a big party. Ten months later, we were married in Santa Barbara. When we wanted to have children, my oncologist didn’t think it was a good idea for me to carry a baby because my tumor grows from estrogen, so we went through the process of hiring a surrogate to carry for us in California. After multiple rounds of IVF where our surrogate was pregnant twice and miscarried twice, we came back to New York and we decided to try IVF on our own, against my doctor’s orders. Unsuccessful yet again, my doctors recommended that we adopt or get an egg donor. I needed a break from it all and took the summer off. That’s when I became pregnant with my son Shane, naturally. Against the wishes of my oncologist, I carried my baby. After a perfectly healthy pregnancy and baby boy later, I learned that my tumor had actually shrunk from my pregnancy. After Shane was born, I began receiving jewelry gifts to represent him in the form of single letters that were very dainty and weren’t very me. Shane’s birth was a major deal for us, I wanted something to wear that represented him in a way that felt like me and expressed my personal style. When I couldn’t find it, I decided to go up to 47th street in Manhattan and design and produce something myself. I designed a dog tag charm with Shane’s named stamped on the front that I styled with a long, thick link chain. I didn’t take it off. I wore my dog tag on set while styling and started to get multiple requests for the same necklace. A hairstylist friend of mine was working with Uma Thurman at the time and suggested I make something for Uma that represented her kids. She ended up wearing it on the cover of Glamour Magazine and Jennifer Fisher Jewelry was born.

I am normally the first person to arrive in the office around 8:15 a.m. after I drop my daughter off at school. I work every day, all day. I am normally here until 6 p.m. when the team leaves, sometimes I am here after, depending on the day. My day consists of meetings, meetings, meetings, interviews, interviews, and more meetings. I try to get some form of design done every day, but our schedule is pretty packed right now, so a lot of times I end up doing that out of office because the office is always busy and I’m interrupted all the time. Sometimes I’ll pop out to see clients in the showroom, but it’s getting to the point now where I really just let my team handle it.

Making people happy and helping them represent their family in their own unique way. 

Don’t take no for an answer. Keep going. Stay in your lane. It’s not about reaching out to other designers for advice, it’s about paving your own way and learning on your own. 

Hopefully, the hoop will continue. It’s always hard to predict this, you never really know what is going to happen. I think that chains are coming back, in heavier chain necklace styles. We are going in that direction ourselves so I am hoping that will catch on. 

The Baby Samira Hoops. They are classic and you will have them forever. You can also wear them day to night.

A pant suit, always. 

I like Cle De Peau eye cream right now, I like Dr. Barbara Sturm glow drops, I like Alastin cleansers and creams. Dr. Jason Diamond.

Go out to lunch and have a cocktail.

You’ll have to watch and find out!