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Witness History, Witness History, Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

Witness History

Witness History

Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer


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May 29, 2020

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Ann Cole Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress in the 1950s. As a black woman working in high fashion she was a groundbreaking figurein New York. Sharon Hemans has been speaking to Judith Guile who went to work with Ann Lowe in her Madison Avenue studio in the 1960s.

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