Design Archives - Infinite Women

Mainie Jellett

20th century Irish artist

Gloria Vanderbilt

Heiress, artist and fashion designer

Patricia Miller

Co-founder of Vera Bradley

Barbara Bradley Baekgaard

Co-founder of Vera Bradley

Vera Wang

American fashion designer

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.

Marie Webster

When she published her own book, Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them, in 1915, the country’s first book dedicated to quilt history became a bestseller. It also helped legitimize quilting as an art and as an important topic of scholarly research.

Hilde Reiss

Bauhaus-trained architect Hilde Reiss was among the émigrés who served as ambassadors for the new style in the United States. In 1946, she was hired by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to serve as the curator of its new Everyday Art Gallery, one of the first museum spaces in the country devoted to modern design.

Eva McKee

20th century Irish craftswoman

Everina Sinclair

Irish craftswoman and teacher