Margaret Josephs

About

Margaret Katona Josephs (born April 9, 1967) is an American designer, entrepreneur and television personality. She is the owner, founder and designer of a lifestyle brand called The Macbeth Collection. She garnered greater recognition in 2017, when she joined the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of New Jersey in its eighth season, where she remained a prominent role before departing after its fourteenth season.

Josephs was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Hungarian immigrants and raised in Mahopac, New York. She would attend Austin Road Elementary School and graduate from Mahopac High School in 1985, before earning a degree in fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Afterwards, she worked in New York’s Garment Center as a dress designer. While working here, she was inspired by the prints and fabrics she worked with which later influenced her own line. After the birth of her son, she decided to establish her own line of decoupage home accessories.

Josephs launched The Macbeth Collection in 1999, after realizing the popularity of her decoupage metal buckets and accessories. It has successfully transitioned into…