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Witness History: Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

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Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

29/05/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name

Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name. She was a groundbreaking figure in the world of high society fashion in New York.

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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