Fleur Fenton Cowles (January 20, 1908 – June 5, 2009[1]) was an American writer, editor and artist[2] best known as the creative force behind the short-lived Flair magazine.

[12] Describing herself as "rough, uncut, [and] vigorous" as her trademark Russian emerald ring, she told Time, "I've worked hard, and I've made a fortune, and I did it in a man's world, but always, ruthlessly, and with a kind of cruel insistence, I have tried to keep feminine".

She resigned her position at Look in November 1955 upon her separation from Gardner Cowles and moved to Europe, where she served as the magazine's foreign editorial consultant.

[citation needed] Contributors included W. H. Auden, Simone de Beauvoir, Winston Churchill, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí (The Gypsy Angels Of Spain), Lucian Freud, Clare Boothe Luce, Ogden Nash, Saul Steinberg, Rufino Tamayo, Tennessee Williams, and Angus Wilson.

[17] In later decades, Cowles served on various government committees, such as writing speeches for the War Production Board,[2] and represented Dwight D. Eisenhower at the coronation of Elizabeth II.

She also designed tapestries, accessories, and china for Denby Ltd.[21] Fleur Fenton Cowles died on June 5, 2009, at a nursing home in Sussex, England, aged 101.