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.

[1][9][10][11] As a child she boarded in Christchurch and Timaru before studying at the Canterbury College School of Art.

[1] In 1929 she lived in a "cheap bedsit" with Rita Angus and Jessie Lloyd.

She started by selling table mats, curtains and beach shirts, which provided an income for her family.

In the 1970s her dresses and coats were worn by New Zealand's first Māori woman cabinet minister, Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan.