Fannie Criss (October 15, 1867 — February 2, 1942), born in Cumberland County, Virginia, was a late 19th-century and 20th-century African-American designer who specialized in hand-made dresses and gowns for elite patrons in Richmond, Virginia and New York City, New York.[1][2] Criss was a free-born child of her former enslaved parents, Samuel and Adeline Christ.[2]