Gloria Vanderbilt

Gloria Vanderbilt teamed up with L'Oreal on a series of fragrances between 1982 and 2002. The first fragrance, signature Vanderbilt for women , was a popular perfume in the 1980s. Find them on offer here at emma.co.uk

Gloria Vanderbilt is an artist, actress, designer, writer, socialite and heiress from one of America's most prominent families of the 19th century. Her great-great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt established enormous wealth in the shipping and railroad industries.

Vanderbilt worked as a fine artist for a number of years before turning to commercial art and design. She began designing for Hallmark greeting cards in 1968 and for Bloomcraft, a textile manufacturer, as well as designing tableware. Her first foray into fashion was a line of scarves for the manufacturer Glentex, which led to an offer to design jeans from Indian businessman Mohan Murjani. The designer jeans craze of the late 1970s started, and the tight jeans with Vanderbilt's signature in script, as well as her swan logo, were an instant success. Vanderbilt sold the rights to his name to the Murjani Group in 1978 and launched his own fashion company.