Eva Rosencrans

Eva Rosencrans (1901–1994) was an American fashion designer of Russian descent who worked mainly for her sister-in-law Nettie Rosenstein as a business partner and head designer. She designed Mamie Eisenhower's inauguration gown.

Early life Born Eva Greene in Russia, she came to Manhattan as an infant with her family. Rosencrans was given a 30% stake and her own designing room, and she and Nettie shared designing responsibilities, which increasingly became more and more Rosencrans' responsibility as Rosenstein focused on the business of managing a highly successful fashion house that was worth over a million dollars by 1937. By 1959, Nettie Rosenstein designs were increasingly acknowledged as being by Rosencrans for the label. However, in 1961, Rosenstein would make the decision to stop offering clothing altogether, and instead focus upon jewelry, perfume and accessories.

Later life and death After her sister-in-law ceased dress design, in 1961, Rosencrans moved on to Ben Reig, where, for the first time, she received consistent name credit for her designs. In 1968, the same year that Reig died, Rosencrans became a teacher at the Fashion Institute of Technology for two years before retiring.

She spent the rest of her life in New York where she died in 1994. One of her sons was the cable television pioneer Robert Rosencrans.