Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Fashion

WiR redlist index: Fashion

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This is a list under development of missing articles on women's clothing or the creation of such clothing.

Fashion/Garment industries

Australia

• Reta Mildred Findlay (1893-1954), businesswoman[1]
• Eleanor Lilian Gladys Gough (1887-1967), teacher of dressmaking[2]
• Catherine Hardess (1889-1970), woolens manufacturer[3]
• Ursula Mary Hordern (1911-1961), fashion editor[4]
• Harriette Adelaide McCathie (d. 1912), clothing retailer[5]
• Helen Lothan Robertson (1848-1937), garment industry unionist[6]
• Phyllis Sykes Shillito (1895-1980), designer and educator[7]
• Janet Walker (designer) (1850-1940), fashion designer[8][9]
• Elizabeth Jane Garland Ward (1842-1908), milliner and philanthropist[10]
• Johanna Wilhelmine Weigel (1847-1940), pattern manufacturer[11]

Canada

• Canadian Aboriginal Festival
• Hayley Elsaesser, designer[12]
• Saniya Khan Pakistani-Canadian fashion designer.[13][14][15]
• Markoo, Canadian fashion label of designers Mona Koochek and Tania Martins[16]
• Veronica MacIsaac - Canadian fashion designer. [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22]
• Verlie Morrison, designer[23][24]

France

• Jeanne Damas, model and founder of the French fashion label Rouje[25]
• Maram Aboul Enein, Egyptian-born Paris designer[26]
• Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix (1868-1930) - Early female couturier and important pioneer both of corset-free dresses and trousers for women. fr:Margaine-Lacroix.

Germany

• Beatrace Angut Oola, director, Africa Fashion Day Berlin[27][28]
• Cornelia-Angelika Kampmann-Tennstedt, costume designer
• Leyla Piedayesh, designer, born in Tehran[29]
• Karlotta Wilde, designer[30]

Ghana

• Claudia Kwarteng Lumor, fashion editor[31]

India

• Rina Dhaka, designer[32]
• Ranna Gill, designer[33]
• Monisha Jaising, designer[34]
• Puja Nayyar, fashion designer[35][36]

Iran

• Farnaz Abdoli, designer[37]
• Naghmeh Kiumarsi, designer[38]

Italy

• Simonetta Visconti (1922-2011), also known as Simonetta Colonna di Cesarò, but worked professionally as Simonetta. Significant and influential Italian couturier. Italian bio. [39], [40],

Japan

• Chitose Abe, designer[41]
• Maiko Takeda - Avant-garde Japanese milliner and jewelry designer. Particularly notable for her collaborations with Icelandic musician Bjork. ([42][43] [44] [45] [46]
• Yumi Katsura (b. 1932), designer[47]

Kenya

• Ann McCreath, fashion designer[48][49]
• Diana Opoti, fashion promoter[50]

Liberia

• Yahne Sangare (1939-2004), journalist and model (born Jeanie Cecilia King)[51]

Nigeria

• Elohor Aisien, modelling agency founder[52]
• Joan Okorodudu, modelling agency founder[53]

Russia

• Asiya Bareeva, designer[54]
• Vika Gazinskaya, designer[55]
• Asya Malbershtein, designer[56]
• Lesia Paramonova, designer[57]
• Dasha Selyanova, designer[58]
• Olia Shurygina (b. 1987), designer[59]
• Yulia Vorobieva (designer), designer[60]

Serbia

• Aleksandra Lalic, fashion designer

South Africa

• Lucilla Booyzen, founder/director, SA Fashion Week[61][62]
• Josie Borain (born 1963), model, photographer[63]
• Jackie Burger, fashion editor[64]

United Kingdom

• Penelope Byrde (b. 1948), fashion historian[65]
• Emily McVitie Clapham (d. 1952), dressmaker[66][67]
• Diana De Marly (b. 1939), fashion historian
• Rahvis - London couture house run by South-African born sisters Raemonde (1913-?) and Dora Rahvis (1914-?), who also worked as film costumiers. [68] (See also V&A book London Couture 1923-1975)
• Donna Wallace - Black British fashion journalist and accessories editor for Vogue UK; selected by the Fashion Museum Bath as the leading fashion journalist to choose the 2019 Dress of the Year

United States

• Kelechi Anyadiegwu, fashion retailer[69]
• Delfina Baldassarre - Owns an eponymous brand, co-head of design [70]; [71]; [72]; [73]; [74]; [75] [76]
• Alice Cadolle
• Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, fashion historian[77]
• Jennie Belle Murphy Covington (1881-1966), worked as a seamstress[78]
• Amy Creyer - fashion photographer [79]; [80]; [81]; [82]; [83]; [84] [85]; [86]; [87]
• Diane Freis - American fashion designer. [88], [89], [90], [91], [92], [93], [94], [95], [96], etc.
• Louise Barnes Gallagher (1892-1972), coat and suit designer and author, winner of the first Neiman Marcus Fashion Awards, 1938.[97], [98]
• Carol Horn (b.1936), fashion designer known for ethnic influences. 1975 Coty Award winner.[99],[100]
• Julia K. Jaffray (d. 1941), fabric labelling advocate
• Carrie Munn (c1900-1984), designer[101]
• Michelle Murphy (curator) (1907-1954), influential textiles and fashion curator at Brooklyn in 1940s, winner of the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award in 1951.[102]
• Lucie Ann Onderwyzer, lingerie designer at "Lucie Ann", won a Neiman Marcus Fashion Award in 1966.[103][104]
• Annette Gurney Ontell (d. 2011), designer[105]
• Malia Peoples, fashion designer[106][107]
• Elisa Rishwain/Elisa Ferare (1944-2010), shoe designer[108][109]
• Helen Van Slyke (1919-1979) fashion executive and novelist[110]
• Mary Lou Spiess - Disabled fashion pioneer [111]
• Eileen West (1949-2017), sleepwear designer[112]
• Araks Yeramyan - Founder of Araks, New York based women's ready-to-wear, lingerie and swimwear brand. [113], [114], [115], [116], [117], [118]

Zimbabwe

• Priscilla Chigariro-Gessen, founder, Zimbabwe Fashion Week[119]

Clothing

Indonesia

• Kain (skirt), sarong-style, [120]

Kenya

African Leso

• Leso (dress) disambiguate from LESO. (Not 100% sure how this is different from a Kanga. Be careful! :)

Korea

• Baetssi, hair ornaments
• Jeonmo, a hat (족두리), [121]
• Sseugae chima, headgear, [122]
• Tteoljam, hair ornament, [123]

United States

• Nah-leen, Apache hair ornament, (p154)

References

• Anahit Behrooz, "The Iranian Fashion Designers Changing The Status Quo" The Culture Trip (October 5, 2016).
• Anahit Behrooz, "The 10 German Fashion Designers You Should Know" Culture Trip (January 3, 2017).
• Sinem Bilen-Onabanjo, "Ultimate Power Players of African Fashion" New African Woman 29(Feb/Mar 2015): 36-44.
• Anastasiia Fedorova, "24 Russian Fashion Designers to Watch" The Guardian (July 10, 2014).
• "The Top 10 Canadian Fashion Designers" Elle Canada (June 21, 2017).
• Francesca Sterlacci, Joanne Arbuckle, eds., Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry (Rowman & Littlefield 2017). ISBN 9781442239098