Ann Lowe earned the reputation as “society’s best kept secret” for designing for many of America’s most prominent families.

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BOSTON (CBS) - It was Newport, September 1953. The centerpiece of the wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and Senator John F. Kennedy was a dress fit for a princess, a classic Ann Lowe. An ivory ...

The Black designer was “society’s best-kept secret” until renewed interest in Black fashion history shed some light on one of its pioneers. The Black designer Ann Lowe, who designed from the 1920s ...

From Louis Vuitton in the 1850s to Yves Saint Laurent over a century later, some of the biggest names in women’s fashion over the past two centuries have overwhelmingly been white men. That’s not to ...

American fashion’s “best-kept secret” is about to receive a major spotlight thanks to Serena Williams and Ruth Carter. The tennis champion and the legendary costume designer are teaming up to produce ...

Born in Clayton, Alabama, in 1898, Ann Lowe inherited a passion for dressmaking from her mother and formerly enslaved grandmother, Georgia Thompkins. After her mother’s death, Lowe took over her ...

Some 800 guests saw the dress at the ceremony at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island, and 400 more watched it glide through the reception that evening. And then there were the ...

Ann Lowe was born in Alabama at the turn of the last century. Her grandfather purchased the freedom of her grandmother and mother. As a girl, Lowe took scraps of fabric from her mother and grandmother ...

In September 1953, Ann Lowe found herself crying in her Harlem studio after a flooding accident ruined 10 of the 15 dresses commissioned by Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss for her daughter, Jacqueline’s ...

Jacqueline Kennedy’s ivory silk taffeta wedding dress was one of the most talked-about pieces of clothing of the 20th century. However, not everyone knows that a Black designer created this iconic ...