Gloria Vanderbilt
Heiress, artist and fashion designer
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Patricia Miller
Co-founder of Vera Bradley
Barbara Bradley Baekgaard
Co-founder of Vera Bradley
Vera Wang
American fashion designer
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.
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
Sara Little Turnbull
Accomplished American product designer, design innovator, and educator. She advised corporate America on product design for more than six decades and has been described as “corporate America’s secret weapon.”