Frances Edith Cresswell

Frances Edith Cresswell (née Buss, 23 March 1910 – 5 June 1986), commonly known as Fanny Buss, was a textile and fashion designer from New Zealand active from the 1950s to the 1980s. Buss was also a printmaker, writer and book illustrator. Examples of her fashion designs are held in the collections of museums around New Zealand including in the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Otago Museum, MTG Hawke's Bay and also feature in the New Zealand Fashion Museum. Buss was a working member of the Canterbury Society of the Arts.

Early life and family Buss was born in Christchurch on 23 March 1910, the daughter of George Howard Buss and Frances Ethel Buss (née Pilbrow) who were farming at Scargill in North Canterbury. As a child she boarded in Christchurch and Timaru before studying at the Canterbury College School of Art.

In 1932, Buss married Douglas Cresswell, and the couple went on to have four children.

Death Buss died on 5 June 1986. She had been predeceased by her husband in 1960.