Gloria Vanderbilt
Heiress, artist and fashion designer
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Martha Stewart
Domestic media icon
Ruth Handler
Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler is best-known as the creator of the Barbie doll
Sallie Krawcheck
Sallie Krawcheck had worked in finance for over a decade, including holding c-suite leadership roles at major companies, when she co-founded Ellevest, a woman-focused investment platform, in 2014.
Vera Wang
American fashion designer
Lynda Weinman
Digital artist and author of one of the first web design textbooks in 1996
Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
Rea Ann Silva
Beautyblender founder
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel was known as a textile designer within her field for decades. But it wasn’t until The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of her wardrobe in 2005—13 years after she retired and well into her 80s—that she achieved broader recognition as an influential tastemaker.
Julienne Aisner
A former teacher and scriptwriter, Julienne Aisner was running a Paris film company when the Nazis occupied France. The 43-year-old Aisner was recruited in January 1943 by an SOE officer to rent apartments for arriving SOE agents, welcome them to Paris and provide them with false documents—identity cards, ration cards, and work permits—that she obtained.