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  • Marcie Cooperman

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    coopermm@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Marcie Cooperman

    Profile

    Marcie has a multidisciplinary career in the areas of fashion design and academia, authorship (Color:  How to Use It, Pearson 2014), color theory, interior design, and fine art.  She teaches Fashion Marketing, Fashion Merchandising, Social Commerce, Entrepreneurship and Color Theory classes at Parsons School of Design, and has also been a Professor of Color Theory at Pratt Institute of Design.  She also teaches fashion design and fashion marketing in China at several pre-college design schools. 

    Marcie’s Fashion Design degree, her Stern MBA and eponymous knitwear business afford Marcie a well-rounded fashion business perspective.  Marcie also owns Fresh Interiors, a bespoke interior design business, offering soup-to-nut services.

    You can find Marcie Cooperman online by Googling “Color Theory expert professor”.

    Degrees Held

    MBA, Marketing and International Business - Stern School of Business, NYU

    BS, Fashion Design - Drexel University

    Recent Publications

    Video:  2019 Xerox Stories • Professional guest on the show https://www.xerox.com/en-us/digital-printing/insights/metallic-colors                              

    https://www.honestjohn.co.uk  2018 • Interviewed for article: “Black Overtakes White as the UKs Most Popular Car Colour”  

    The Telegraph 2017 • Interviewed for article: “What the Color of Your Car Says About You”                                        

    Refinery29 2016 • Interviewed for article “THIS Is How To Actually Dress With Color, If You Mostly Wear Black”

    Yahoo.com Auto page 2015 • Interviewed for an article by Ken Wysocky about color choices for autos

    Montclair Times article 2015 • Review for Water/Color, a visual arts show that I curated

    Textbook - Color: How to Use It, Pearson, 2014

    America Weekend Radio Show 2014 • Interviewed live on-air about trends in color choices for autos

    Performances and Appearances

    Video:  2019 Xerox Stories • Professional guest on the show https://www.xerox.com/en-us/digital-printing/insights/metallic-colors  

    America Weekend Radio Show 2014 • Interviewed live on-air about trends in color choices for autos

    Research Interests

    color theory, fashion design, fashion history, marketing, painting

    Current Courses

    Fashion Bus & Entrepreneurship
    PSOF 1031, Fall 2025

    Visual Merchandising
    PSOF 1191, Fall 2025

    Future Courses

    Visual Merchandising
    PSOF 1191, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Visual Merchandising
    PSOF 1191, Spring 2025

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