Feb 28, 2005 - Sale 2034

Sale 2034 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 546
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(DESIGN.) Lowe, Ann. Small archive related to fashion designer Ann Lowe, including two pencil sketches for fancy gowns, notes, TLS to a father regarding the gown for his daughter's debutante ball, etc. New York, circa 1962

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Ann Lowe was born in Clayton, AL in 1898, the granddaughter of a slave. She is considered to be the first African-American fashion designer. Jackie Bouvier's gown for her 1953 wedding to Jack Kennedy was designed by Lowe.