Celebrating Ann Lowe - Honoring the legacy of Black fashion designers
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2021
- Give to the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection: go.osu.edu/B5zc
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Listen to The Ohio State University Inspire Podcast episode about Ann Lowe and her gown: ohiostateuniversityinspire.po...
Reading recommendations by Gayle Strege
-"Fancy Party Gowns, The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe" by Deborah Blumenthal
-Saturday Evening Post, v237, #44, page 74, "Ann Lowe: Society’s Best Kept Secret" by Thomas B. Congdon Jr.
-americanhistory.si.edu/blog/lowe
-Ebony, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p136-142, “Dean of American Designers,” by Gerri Major
-“Threads of Time, The Fabric of History: Profiles of African American Dressmakers and Designers, 1850 to the Present” by Rosemary E. Reed Miller
-“The Life and Work of Ann Lowe: Rediscovering ‘Society’s Best Kept Secret'" by Margaret Powell www.worldcat.org/title/life-a....
-“Something to Prove: A Biography of Ann Lowe America’s Forgotten Designer” by Julia Faye Dockery Smith
-“Elizabeth Keckly and Ann Lowe: Recovering an African American Fashion Legacy That Clothed the American Elite.” Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 19, no. 1 (2015): 115-41 by Elizabeth Way
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About Donna James
Donna James is a trusted resource and advisor to leaders in the public and private sector, and has served on the board of directors of numerous companies. Prior to starting her own business, Lardon & Associates, she retired as president of Nationwide Strategic Investments, a division of Nationwide Insurance and Financial Services Company.
Donna's passion for enabling others to find their best drives her personal and community engagement. She is co‐founder of the Center for Healthy Families, a collaborative focused on transforming the lives of pregnant and parenting teens and their children. She is co‐executive director of the African American Leadership Academy and previously co‐chaired the CelebrateOne initiative to reduce infant mortality in Columbus and Franklin County. She has received numerous honors including an appointment by President Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council; Columbus Hall of Fame; Who’s Who in Black Columbus Lifetime Achievement Award; King Arts Complex Legends Award; Columbus Museum of Art Honoree and named by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the top 75 in Corporate America.
About Lynnda Davis
Lynnda Maria Davis is a former corporate executive, successful entrepreneur and current community leader. After graduating with a degree in retail fashion merchandising and interior design from the University of Illinois, Lynnda went to Paris where she studied merchandising and design at the Paris American Academy.
Lynnda’s career began in retail management and finance at Gimbels Midwest. She later earned an MBA from Northwestern University and made a career transition into consumer goods marketing where she led successful project teams at both Kraft General Foods and the Quaker Oats Company.
Lynnda and her husband Steve continue to make noteworthy contributions through their business and volunteer efforts in central Ohio.
Ann Lowe deserves volumes written about her contribution to fashion. I think about Eunice Johnson and the Ebony/Jet Fashion Fair Fashion Shows and the Summer of ‘66 article in Ebony magazine on Ann Lowe…thank you ladies for acquiring the Ann Lowe dress for future generations to remember Ann Lowe.
Thank You for discussion on Ann Lowe. She deserves to be recognized and HONORED for her Contributions to Fashion....❤❤
Thank you for sharing this video. Ann Lowe . Wow! What a talent
What a remarkably talented woman was Ann Lowe Cone!!
TMH gave this sistah a wonderful blessing and like the Proverb of the Talents, she increased her blessing ten-fold!!
I'm so very proud of Ms. Cone and her achievements!
She excelled despite the barriers she faced!
What an indomitable human being and fierce designer!!👏🏾👏🏾
Look at the back of that ivory dress. It's absolutely beautiful and designed for a Angel.
The design and details are rare and not to be duplicated.
I am so proud of her as she was Black woman of class.
Also, there are at least three Ann Lowe gowns at The Henry B. Plant Museum on the University of Tampa campus. They were gowns for Tampa's annual Gasparilla balls. One is from 1924.
It was the butler at the door who told Ms. Lowe that she'd have to take the Jackie Kennedy wedding dresses through the backdoor. Ann Lowe refused and threatened to take the dresses away with her if he insisted. He gave in.
Unique indeed, the style can be worn even today.Love it.
It was upon delivering Jacqueline Bouvier's bridal gown that the staff directed Ms. Lowe to the back. She refused and said she would leave with the gowns at which point she was admitted through the front door.
So you see they say America is not a racist nation but it was and still is.
Black people are very creative and good workers. We built the foundations of America and the foundations of the White House and Georgetown University and now various institutions are recognizing their part in slavery and using the African American people.
Aunty, I'm letting all I know Black and White about your legacy and contributions to the world of Fashion Coutre.
Love this ❤️❤️
I don't think Jackie Kennedy was trying to put Anne Lowe down as a colored woman who designed her dress
She did not want the world to know her dressmaker
She was more than likely precious to Jackie and her family..they were repeat customers. I am a Black woman..it did not offend me. We must put things in perspective. Love the history. Wonderful dialogue in narration.
Sorry, but it was offensive. What she said to the reporter was negative and she should have kept it to herself. What you don't know about Jackie Kennedy is that she wasn't fond of Black people or Martin Luther King and that's a FACT look up what she said about him that was found out after she died. Although
Jack Kennedy was more outgoing and more friendlier, Jackie wasn't fond of Black people.
Her mother
Ms Auchincloss loved Anne Lowe's designs.
Now I'm not trying to be funny but actually Jackie's wedding dress made her look better than she actually look herself.
She was no beauty.
That wedding dress made her shine.
Nah. She was racist. STOP GIVING WHITE PEOPLE A PASS. PERIOD.
And the Jackie Kennedy bridesmaids' dresses (10 in all) were soaked when a pipe burst in Ms. Lowe's studio. She had to call in every seamstress she knew to help her resew these gowns. But she only charged $500.00 for Jackie's wedding dress! Obviously, Ann Lowe lost money. She died in poverty.
How about the lack of Black "Celebrities" who galantly "cake walk" the red carpet so proudly at their lime l8ght, red carpet spec5acles...
My persistent depression is triggered