Mar 24, 2020
Ann Lowe was the first African American fashion designer noted among white high society matrons in America and worked from the 1920s - 60s. Now she is most famous for designing the ivory silk taffeta wedding dress worn by Jackie Kennedy (Bouvier) but at the time her work was not publicly credited. When asked, Jacqueline Kennedy said it was a “colored woman”.
You can find a collection of five of Ann Lowe’s designs at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
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