Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes was an African-American fashion designer and costume maker. She was born on June 28, 1905 in Pennsylvania and died September 26, 2001 in New York. In 1948 she opened the first African American owned boutique in Manhattan on Broadway and West 158th Street. D Her sister, Mary Barbour, was her assistant. She called her store, Chez Zelda. She was the original designer of the Playboy Bunny Costume.