Sophie Gimbel (1898 – November 28, 1981) was an American fashion designer for Salon Moderne of Saks Fifth Avenue.

[1] Her father was a tobacco merchant who died when she was four and her mother remarried a year later to John Alexander McLeay, whence the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia.

She attended Agnes Scott College for a time before marrying at age 19 to Jay Harry Rossbach[1] and moving to Philadelphia.

She created many ready-to-wear fashions and is credited with introducing culottes (divided skirts) to the American market.

Gimbel took a conservative approach to fashion, decrying vanishing hem lines and exposed flesh.

The Couture Group of the New York Dress Institute named Gimbel among the best-dressed fashion personalities of 1959.