Linda Dresner, Detroit fashion icon and CCS champion, dies at 88

Linda Dresner, the Detroit-born fashion visionary whose fiercely independent eye helped shape international style while anchoring a generation of creative talent at the College for Creative Studies, died Monday, March 30, at age 88.

For more than four decades, Dresner stood at the intersection of avant-garde fashion and unwavering Detroit pride. Though her boutiques in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham and New York’s Park Avenue became pilgrimage sites for designers, society figures and tastemakers, she remained deeply rooted in the city that shaped her worldview and was devoted to ensuring that Detroit’s creative future endured beyond her own career.