She was known for creating glamorous bias-cut and tailored pieces using high quality fabrics featuring intricate embroidery and applique and ran her own successful fashion label from 1972 to 1990.
Her contemporaries included Ossie Clarke, Zandra Rhodes, Moya Bowler, Bill Gibb, Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin.
Here it took a slender, shy young blonde designer Janice Wainwright to cut and drape and fashion these prints into dresses of logic and beauty [...] She's chosen surprise colourways - to everyone who thinks of jungle prints as blazes of red and bronze and yellow - such as a rich forest green teamed with a grape-juice red.”[5] Another collection in 1968 was inspired by Isadora Duncan, described as "twenties inspired – clinging crepe and exotic with swatched turbaned headgear floating dresses and scarves".
"[8] The Sunday Mirror also reported that Simon Massey, with "Janice Wainwright, their clever young designer", had found a "cure" for "fashion schizophrenia" in creating convertibles.
[citation needed] From the early 1970s, with a free rein, she began a creative period of freelancing which developed the Wainwright label.
[10] She expanded her company in a new premises in Poland Street, Soho, and, with her sister Wendy as head of sales, a new era of creative and global business success began.