Katja of Sweden

Katja Ingergard Geiger (; 12 January 1920 – 25 January 2017), better known as Katja of Sweden, was a Swedish fashion designer.

There she married movie producer and director Rod E. Geiger who at the time was producing movies for Roberto Rossellini. The couple launched the Katja of Sweden brand in the late 1940s. Katja became close friends with Rosselini's wife Ingrid Bergman, and named a blouse after her that became a fashion hit.

She was the designer for Arthur Sportswear which used contractors including those in the Bronx which employed 50 seamstresses turning out her products. Being close friends with Charlie Chaplin, and Edward Dmytryk who was one of the Hollywood Ten, the Hollywood blacklist ordeal got Mr. Geiger in hot water. In 1975, they moved back to New York City, where she began designing home textiles, bed sheets, and kitchenware. "Katja shops" opened up in Macy's department store and Cannon Mills manufactured her designs under license. In the 1980s advertisements featuring Bob Hope and Larry Hagman sleeping in "Katja sheets" ran with the tagline "Two of the Most Famous Names in America Sleep Together"

Awards 1950: US Designer of the Year