Betty Yokova

Betty Yokova (1901 – 24 April 1995) was a Czech-born French fashion designer who became an award-winning American fur designer in New York.

Biography Betty Yokova was born in Prague, Bohemia in 1901, and studied art in Paris. She began her fashion career in Paris in the 1930s, opening her own couture house despite not having had any training or apprenticeships with other fashion houses. Apart from a brief interlude in the early 1960s where she worked at Bernham Stein, she worked for Maximilian until 1963, when she left to design for another furrier, A. Neustadter & Sons. In 1964, Yokova described her approach to design as seeing the pelts as fabrics, and being inspired by their textures and colors.

She retired in 1967, and died on 24 April 1995, at the Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport. She was survived by her sister.