Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index.

Aino Aalto -- Anni Albers -- Laura Ashley -- Gae Aulenti -- Lina Bo Bardi -- Cini Boeri -- Irma Boom -- Marianne Brandt -- Margaret Calvert -- Louise Campbell -- Anna Castelli Ferrieri -- Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel -- Louise Chérut -- Kim Colin -- Collier Campbell -- Muriel Cooper -- Matali Crasset -- Lucienne Day -- Carlotta De Bevilacqua -- Sonia Delaunay -- Elsie de Wolfe -- Elizabeth Diller -- Nanna Ditzel -- Marion Dorn -- Nipa Doshi -- Dorothy Draper -- Clara Driscoll -- Lucille, Lady Duff-Gordon -- Ray Eames -- Estrid Ericssson -- Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi -- Front -- "Georgie"' Georgina Gaskin -- General Motor's "Damsels of Design" -- Sophie Gimbel -- The Glasgow Girls -- Lonneke Gordijn -- Eileen Gray -- April Grieman -- Maija Grotell -- Zaha Hadid -- Katharine Hamnett -- Ineke Hans -- Edith Head -- Margaret Howell -- Maija Isola -- Grete Jalk -- Gertrude Jekyll -- Betty Joel -- Hella Jongerius -- Ilonka Karasz -- Susan Kare -- Rei Kawakubo -- Florence Knoll Bassett -- Florence Koehler -- Belle Kogan -- Valentina Kulagina -- Lora Lamm -- Jeanne Lanvin -- Estelle Laverne -- Amanda Levete -- Shelia Levrant de Bretteville -- Elaine Lustig Cohen -- Märta Måås-Fjetterström -- Bonnie Maclean -- Greta Magnusson-Grossman -- Cecilie Manz -- Enid Marx -- Grethe Meyer -- Rosita Missoni -- May Morris -- Marie Neurath -- Neri Oxman -- Maria Pergay -- Charlotte Perriand -- Miuccia Prada -- Mary Quant -- Ingegerd Råman -- Ruth Reeves -- Lily Reich -- Lucie Rie -- Astrid Sampe -- Paula Scher -- Elsa Schiaparelli -- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky -- Denise Scott Brown -- Inga Sempé -- Alma Siedhoff-Buscher -- Alison Smithson -- Sylvia Stave -- Varava Stepanova -- Nanny Still -- Gunta Stölzl -- Marianne Straub -- Anne Swainson -- Faye Toogood -- Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe -- Nynke Tynagel -- Patricia Urquiola -- Mimi Vandermolen -- Lella Vignelli -- Nanda Vigo -- Vivienne Westwood -- Yiqing Yin -- Eva Zeisel -- Nika Zupanc.

Women designers have made an immense contribution to our shared material culture and built environment. However, while several pioneers have achieved global recognition - Ray Eames, Florence Knoll Bassett and Charlotte Perriand to name a few - there are others not so well known but equally influential to the history of design. This book introduces the principal players in the areas of fashion, textiles, graphic and product design and architecture from the last 100 years, and uncovers a history with women firmly at the centre. Featuring profiles on more than 100 women designers, each accompanied by an informative and authoritative text and illustrated by iconic works, this book is an inspirational focus for all design students and practitioners.

"Women in Design celebrates over a century of female creativity and ingenuity within all areas of design, including fashion, textiles, furniture, lighting, product, automotive, industrial, graphic and interactive as well as architecture. Featuring more than 100 profiles of pioneering women designers, some who have achived global recognition such as Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand and Zaha Hadid, it also introduces the fascinating and often untold stories of lesser-known designers, who have similarly shaped and enriched the story of design"--page 4 of cover.