Drawing inspiration from the heart of the deep south, New Orleans; over a pitcher of sweet tea and a messy shrimp po boy, Jolie and Elizabeth was born. In New Orleans, Jolie grew up seeing gentlemen in their seersucker suits, while women didn't have many options. Jolie interned in New York City under Betsey Johnson, then went on to designing for BCBG in both New York City and Los Angeles for over five years. She then went on to Alice + Olivia before returning home to New Orleans to chase the dream of giving women more high quality seersucker garments that are both hand sewn locally and beautifully designed.
After just five months, in June 2010, Jolie and Elizabeth were awarded "Top 30 People to Watch 2010" by New Orleans Magazine.
In May 2011, Jolie and Elizabeth launched the "JE Junior Designer Challenge" in an effort to continue the growing apparel design and manufacturing industries and further the number of opportunities available for young talent.
In September 2011, Jolie and Elizabeth was featured by Inc. and Forbes Magazine.
In November 2011, Jolie and Elizabeth were named Top 100 Entrepreneurs in America by the White House, the prestigious Empact 100 List.
In May 2012, Jolie and Elizabeth were featured in Southern Living Magazine, in a three page feature.
In the Fall of 2012, a dress from Jolie and Elizabeth's Summer 2010 Collection was chosen as the second season Ad Dress for Zooey Deschanel on Fox's hit TV Show 'New Girl''. The white with navy seersucker detail strapless dress was appropriately renamed, "The Zooey Dress".
In April 2014, The Rebecca Dress, a seersucker scalloped hem shift dress was featured in Southern Living magazine.
In September 2014, Jolie and Elizabeth celebrated a great milestone for their company, 10,000 dresses manufactured at their manufacturing facility in New Orleans. They celebrated with a fete at Gravier Street Social in New Orleans, LA, along with their best retailers, customers and loyal supporters.
In November 2014, Jolie and Elizabeth completed a 6 month design collaboration process with the iconic Mignon Faget. The beautiful gift set, a limited edition holiday design includes a Wish Ring necklace adorned with 3 exclusive charms inspired by Jolie & Elizabeth’s designs: a Button, a Grosgrain Bow and a Seersucker Heart, placed inside a seersucker jewelry sac. Jolie and Sarah Elizabeth consider it an honor to have worked with such a prestigious and timeless New Orleans designer as Mignon Faget.
In 2015, Jolie and Elizabeth collaborated with the iconic Haspel company, and designed their very first women's seersucker dress.
In February 2016, Jolie and Elizabeth was again featured in Southern Living, in their 50th Anniversary Issue.
The designs of Jolie and Elizabeth have been featured in various regional and national publications, including NY's Daily Candy, VIE Magazine, and Southern Living.
As of 2019, Jolie remains as the sole designer of Jolie and Elizabeth. She designs and operates out of her design studio in uptown New Orleans, a few blocks from the St Charles streetcar. Jolie and Elizabeth continues to use seamstresses from throughout the New Orleans area. As Jolie and Elizabeth no longer offers wholesale, Elizabeth is not with the company.
In March of 2020, Jolie and Elizabeth was awarded an artist residency by the New Orleans Arts Council.
Located in Canal Place downtown, next to Saks Fifth Avenue and Anthropologie, Jolie designed the art design space with large seersucker and silk sheets of fabric draped by gold bands, rich colors of cobalt and mint silk crepe de chine. From March 2020 until March 2021, Jolie resided in the artist space every Saturday, sewing and designing, meeting with clients and showing her creative process.
In December 2021, the Dewdrop lace Shawl was featured in New Orleans Magazine.
In Spring 2023 and Spring 2024, Jolie and Elizabeth was invited to be a featured artist with YLC's Wednesday at the Square.
In September 2024 and September 2025, Jolie was selected as a featured designer in Longue Vue Garden's Design Symposium. Part of an artistic movement to merge fashion and architecture, designers were asked to create couture gowns to match a room in the Longue Vue house.
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