Bio

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Born and raised in Westchester, New York, S. Marie Rivers developed an early and immense love of fashion, magazines and travel. While attending The New School and working at the New York Times, she began her career as a fashion assistant working in the New York Times fashion closet and writing freelance lifestyle and fashion pieces for various New York magazines. Through her work, she would learn about fashion shoots, attending fashion shows and writing fashion reviews.  After more than a decade at The New York Times, S. Marie served as Associate Creative Director, for Couture Zappos (Zappos Luxury), where she developed the social platforms, and repositioned the brand look and feel. Additionally, she traveled extensively with the buyers throughout Europe visiting showrooms and private buying appointments, meeting and interviewing designers and writing about fashion 

on a global scale.

In 2009, S. Marie became the Design Director of Khaleej Times, a Middle Eastern daily newspaper, and Editor-in-Chief of INDULGE Magazine, a quarterly luxury magazine. As Editor-in-Chief, she rebranded and relaunched the design, created storytelling components, and repositioned the magazine while creating additional supplemental magazines for Galadari Printing & Publishing. This experience led to her being a much sought-after magazine editor and fashion writer throughout the Middle East and the western United States. 

Additionally, S. Marie's impressive resume consists of nearly two-decades as a fashion editor, magazine editor-in-chief, fashion stylist and fashion journalist. As an on-air personality, she served as a fashion analyst and style expert,  speaking at the International Leaders in Luxury conferences in 2009 and 2010, which  further distinguished her global view and expertise in the luxury sector. In her spare time, she loves traveling, cooking, cocktails with friends, reading and kickboxing.