"Ann Lowe is creating art. If she had lived in France, she'd have been as well known as Chanel or Dior," textile importer Arthur Dages told The Saturday Evening Post in 1964 about the designer who ...

Lowe is an unsung couture designer who dressed elite women. Skip to content. ... Ann Lowe found herself crying in her Harlem studio after a flooding accident ruined 10 of the 15 dresses ...

Many who know the name Ann Lowe entered her story when she designed Jacqueline Bouvier’s wedding dress for her marriage to John F. Kennedy and wasn’t credited for it. But beyond that, there ...

A designer for the social elite. Ann Lowe was born around 1898 in Clayton, Alabama. Her grandmother, born enslaved, and mother, both skilled seamstresses, made gowns for socialites in Montgomery.

Learn about Ann Lowe, the African American fashion designer behind Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, and her lasting impact on couture.

When Lowe moved to New York to enroll at S. T. Taylor Design School in 1917, the administration “didn’t actually know that she was Black until she showed up on the first day.

Lowe died in 1981 at the age of 82. Despite having had a 50-year career that included designing that historic dress and being a go-to designer for society types like Marjorie Merriweather Post ...

The dress — as well as Jacqueline Kennedy’s bridesmaids’ — was made by a Black designer, Ann Lowe. Born in rural Alabama in the late 19th century, she was taught the skills of dressmaking ...

But they were clear about one thing: This was not Jackie Kennedy’s gown. This was Ann Lowe’s gown. “Ann Lowe was an amazing and creative designer who had many well-known clients, but as an African ...

That’s how fashion designer Ann Lowe’s great-granddaughter Linda Ann Dixon summed up the significance of the pioneering Black designer’s work being spotlighted in “Women Designing Women ...

Ann Lowe designed one of the most iconic dresses of all time, even if her story is almost unknown. Lowe was involved in one of the biggest weddings of all time, designing the dress that Jacqueline ...

Ann Lowe — the pioneering fashion designer and American couturier — is getting the biopic treatment at TriStar thanks to Serena Williams and Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth Carter.