About Suzy Levian New York
About Suzy Levian New York
Suzy Levian New York is a founder-led jewelry and lifestyle design brand based in Great Neck, New York, created to celebrate women through accessible luxury, symbolic design, and The Secret Diamond®. Founded in 2010 by Suzy Levian, the brand began with jewelry and grew into a world of meaningful design shaped by color, elegance, family, resilience, and the belief that every woman carries a hidden diamond within herself.
Recognized among the world’s Top 10 female fashion designers and awarded by multiple fashion, design, and industry organizations for her creativity, originality, and distinctive vision, Suzy Levian has established herself as a powerful force in modern luxury. Her work combines the intellectual sophistication of contemporary design, the confidence to challenge convention, the glamour and drama of the red carpet, a deep commitment to empowering women, refined feminine elegance, and an instinct for creating designs that are both iconic and highly wearable. Sold globally and worn by stars, Suzy Levian’s collections embody Hollywood glamour, award-season elegance, bold individuality, and timeless sophistication, while maintaining the distinctive artistry and feminine refinement that define the Suzy Levian name. Her creative world extends beyond jewelry into fashion and bespoke design, including custom pieces and one-of-a-kind creations for high-profile personalities and celebrities. Building upon a centuries-old family legacy in jewelry, Suzy Levian has elevated her own brand into an internationally recognized luxury name with a prestige, identity, and creative voice distinctly her own, surpassing the family businesses that preceded it. From dazzling statement pieces created for the world’s most photographed moments to timeless everyday luxury, Suzy Levian designs with a singular purpose: to empower women, inspire confidence, celebrate individuality, and make every woman feel like the star of her own story.
Suzy comes from a 500-year Iranian jewelry lineage, where generations of her family worked with gemstones, craftsmanship, and heirloom design. From the time she was young, jewelry was part of her everyday life. She learned beside her father, sketched designs, watched the beauty of stones come to life, and developed an eye for color, proportion, detail, and emotion. Design was not something she discovered later. It was a language she grew up speaking.
A woman creating her own path
Although Suzy was raised inside a legendary jewelry tradition, she knew she needed to create something that carried her own voice. She worked with her brothers in the family jewelry world, but she felt a calling to build a brand that spoke directly to women. She saw that women were often the ones choosing jewelry for love, celebration, confidence, motherhood, milestones, and self-expression, yet the emotional power of women was not always placed at the center of the design story.
Suzy wanted to change that. She wanted to create a brand that would remind women that beauty does not begin with the diamond on the outside. It begins with the diamond within.
Founded in 2010, built with heart
In 2010, while raising six children, Suzy began building her own company. The early years were filled with sacrifice, long nights, and determination. She worked from her home garage so she could stay close to her family, returning to her designs after her children were settled for the night. In that small beginning, she handled the pressure of building a new business while still being fully present as a wife and mother.
Those years shaped the heart of Suzy Levian New York. The brand was not born from distance or luxury for luxury’s sake. It was built from real life: motherhood, family, courage, creativity, late-night work, and the belief that women deserve to feel strong, beautiful, and seen.
Accessible luxury with meaning
Suzy Levian New York was created for women who want elegance with emotion. Suzy believed luxury should feel inspiring, but also reachable. Her vision was to create beautiful designer pieces that more women could enjoy, from fine diamond jewelry to sterling silver and high-quality cubic zirconia designs. The brand offers glamour, color, and sparkle, but always with a deeper message.
Every design is created to feel personal. The brand’s collections are known for original design concepts, rich color stories, feminine detail, meaningful motifs, statement silhouettes, and pieces that move gracefully from everyday wear to special moments.
The Secret Diamond®
At the heart of Suzy Levian New York is The Secret Diamond®, Suzy’s signature hidden stone and symbol of inner beauty. Across jewelry, accessories, and home décor, The Secret Diamond® is incorporated as a discreet hidden stone, crystal, or design detail depending on the structure of the piece. In jewelry, it may be set inside the design. In handbags, scarves, sunglasses, watches, and décor, it appears as a tucked-away element, hidden accent, charm, crystal, or symbolic detail created to carry the same private message.
The meaning never changes. The Secret Diamond® is for the woman who wears it, carries it, or keeps it near her. It reminds her that her worth is not defined by what the world sees first. Her courage, resilience, kindness, dreams, and inner strength are her true brilliance.
A jewelry and lifestyle world
Suzy Levian New York began with jewelry and expanded into a fuller lifestyle design world. Today, the brand includes rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants, watches, statement jewelry, giftable jewelry, handbags, scarves, sunglasses, and home décor crystals, including crystal vases, picture frames, and ornaments.
The home décor pieces extend Suzy’s love of light, sparkle, memory, and beauty into the spaces women live in. Just as jewelry can carry meaning on the body, a crystal vase, picture frame, or ornament can carry beauty into the home, turning everyday spaces into places of warmth, reflection, and celebration.
A mission for women
Women’s empowerment is not a slogan for Suzy Levian New York. It is the reason the brand exists. Suzy built her own path in a male-dominated industry, sometimes facing moments when people assumed someone else must be in charge. She answered with confidence, determination, adaptability, experience, and humility.
That same spirit lives in the brand and continues through EmpowerHer™, Suzy’s women-focused initiative created to support female entrepreneurs through encouragement, mentorship, resources, networking, grants, and scholarships.
Suzy Levian New York stands for beauty with purpose. Every design is a reminder that a woman is already radiant, already worthy, and already carrying her own diamond within.