Jenny Yvonne "Ginette" Spanier (7 March 1904 – 1 April 1988[1]) was a French director of the House of Balmain, a Paris fashion-house, and was decorated for her wartime work.

Spanier, who was Jewish, was born in Paris on 7 March 1904 and raised in Hampstead, London, England and attended Frognal School there.

[2][3] Seidmann was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for his work with concentration camp survivors.

[2] After the war, the couple lived for many years on Paris' Avenue Maurice, and she became directrice (director) at Balmain from 1947 to 1976.

[5] The programme was not archived by the BBC, but an unofficial tape copy was among a collection of over 90 episodes discovered by an amateur researcher and placed online in 2022.