Fete Lifestyle Magazine February 2021 - Reality/Realness Issue | Page 38

Ann Jaimi Alexander is a Tamil Canadian educator and artist living in Vancouver, B.C. She is an avid traveller who has explored 39 countries in search of cultural identity and belonging. She is passionate about food, social justice, mental health and healing through the sharing of stories.

Ann Jaimi Alexander

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Meredith Marks is a wife, mother, businesswoman and an award winning celebrity favorite jewelry designer. Her jewelry is worn by celebrities like Rhianna, Charlize Theron, Courteney Cox and many others. Meredith’s passion for jewelry began as a young girl admiring her Great Grandmother’s gorgeous collection that she accumulated all over the world. Her favorite stone was a deep colored 40 carat aquamarine that her great grandmother spent years searching for and set as a cocktail ring surrounded by diamonds. Meredith was artistically inspired by the beauty of the ring and remembers her mother getting ready for the evening while trying on different eye-catching pieces.

Meredith is a Chicago native immersed in fashion from a young age. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, worked as a model, and then attended graduate school at Northwestern University, earning two diplomas. Her designs epitomize the ethos of livable luxury: a world traveler and working mom, she designs for the way women live, with passion and purpose.

As a friend of FLM we are excited to share what more we learned about everyone’s new favorite housewife and showcase how much of a real bad ass Meredith Marks truly is.