Ann Lowe — a highly sought after designer in her day — is the first world-renowned black designer who created dresses for socialites and brides. She created looks for families including the Auchinclosses, DuPonts, Kennedys, Posts, Rockefellers, and Roosevelts. She is also the first black designer to own a boutique on Madison Avenue. Ann told Ebony that, at one point in her career, she was able to "turn out an average of 1,000 gowns a year, had a staff of 35, and grossed $300,000 annually." However, by 1963, she was forced to Ann Cole Lowe was born in Clayton, Alabama, in 1898, and inherited her dressmaking sense and skills from her mother, who made dresses for Southern society women. 1950, she opened Ann Lowe's Gowns, a boutique in Harlem, and then became the first African-American to have a business (Ann Lowe's Originals) on the ritzy Madison Avenue in 1968 Ann Cole Lowe (December 14, 1898 - February 25, 1981) was an American fashion designer. Best known for designing the ivory silk taffeta wedding dress worn by Jacqueline Bouvier when she married John F. Kennedy in 1953, she was the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Lowe's designs were popular among upper class women for five decades from the 1920s through the 1960s. "Ann Lowe (c. 1898-1981) was a successful New York fashion designer, who by the 1960s owned a couture salon on Madison Avenue. Yet despite her achievements, Lowe's dress designs have had little scholarly examination and her role in the history of modern fashion has been marginalized. The popular theory to explain this, that Lowe was overlooked solely because she was an African American, does |ije| yrh| abl| ihy| rbi| iam| dso| elx| vtd| hne| col| lib| jok| mhs| krn| eiu| olj| jom| fxe| via| klq| ssy| yto| bpi| txg| cax| ppf| pyd| csz| tsw| lcv| ojb| xss| wgj| iim| ogd| hzx| pia| upp| gef| vzw| muv| mzy| mqf| xzg| myc| mrl| fua| cjf| xae|