Ann Lowe, who designed Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress, is the subject of a museum exhibition.
But even within the fashion world, the story behind the dress Jacqueline Bouvier wore to wed John F. Kennedy in 1953 is strangely unknown. The designer of the dress — simple and feminine, with charming pinwheels of white silk — went uncredited at the time. In 1961, a reporter for the Ladies’ Home Journal profiling the first lady described her wedding gown in glowing detail, but referred to its maker as “a colored woman dress maker, not the haute couture.
“Winterthur really has the conservation lab to handle all of the restoration work that had to be done on these dresses,” said Way, who was brought in as guest curator of the exhibition.
But this was not always the case, and it is stunning that a designer like Lowe was overlooked given how central she was to constructing American fashion ideas. Today, fashion houses are under pressure to pay more attention to Black designers, stylists and celebrities, and to speak more directly to Black consumers.Both consumers and fashion houses readily admit that not enough progress has been made.
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