Ann Lowe: Society's Best Kept Secret
Ann Lowe spent nearly forty years dressing America's oldest, richest families, the Auchinclosses, the du Ponts, the Rockefellers, including designing Jacqueline Bouvier's 1953 wedding dress to John F. Kennedy, one of the most reproduced wedding gowns in American history. She built her career under segregation, survived a flood that destroyed the wedding dress ten days before the ceremony, and was never publicly credited for it at the time: Jacqueline Kennedy herself once described her only as "a colored woman dressmaker." This episode covers Lowe's start in Clayton, Alabama, her training in a…
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