Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Black History Month, theGrio honors Black people's accomplishments in in entertainment, science, fashion, arts, and more.

"As soon as Ann Cole Lowe could walk, her momma and grandma taught her to sew. When her mom died, Ann continued sewing dresses. It wasn't easy, especially when she went to design school and had to ...

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 ...

Her remarkable talent for decades was unknown to the wider public, but new books and a museum exhibition are spotlighting the life and work of couturier Ann Lowe as her Palm Beach connections also ...

Without the Black designer Ann Lowe, Jacqueline Kennedy and generations of wealthy, socially prominent white women from the 1920s through the 1940s remembered for their elegant and regal glamour, may ...

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 ...

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,” the ...

Ann Lowe was the go-to designer among the fashionable elite of the mid-20th century. But because of her race, they were loath to admit it. Ann Lowe was the secret weapon of 20th-century American ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remaining in the background of the fashion world for 35 years in New York, Ann Lowe, had her first show this year. The designer, ...