Gloria Sachs Designs, founded in 1970, tailored for the increasing percentage of American women employed in professional and management positions through the 1970s and 1980s.

She grew up in Scarsdale and studied at Skidmore College, graduating with a degree in the fine arts in 1947[1] despite entering as a math major.

[1] In Paris, she studied in the workshop of the painter Fernand Léger, trained under architects Franco Albini and Giò Ponti, and modeled for Balenciaga and Pierre Balmain.

[4] After she moved back to New York in 1951, she found work at the Bloomingdale's department store as an executive trainee,[3] feeling as though "painting was too lonely a career for a young woman".

[6] Sachs' line was sold at stores such as Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus.

[3] Prior to her death, she was arranging the opening of the Fashion Group's first chapter in Shanghai and received an invitation to be a visiting scholar to the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.