In 1968 Lowe became the first Black woman to own a store on Madison Avenue.Īmerican designer Willi Smith was the streetwear pioneer. When asked, Jackie O simply said it was by "a colored designer." Financially, Lowe was taken advantage of by her clientele and by the mid-60s she was in debt, which was paid off by an anonymous friend-some say Jackie O. In 1953, Lowe scored a historical commission when she was hired to create the wedding dress of Jacqueline Bouvier (Jackie O). Unfortunately, this wouldn't be the last time that Lowe failed to receive credit. I’m not interested in sewing for cafe society or social climbers,” she said. She made the dress that Olivia de Havilland wore to accept her Oscar, but her name was not on the label. She was called "society's best kept secret." Lowe was highly selective with her clientele: “I love my clothes, and I’m particular about who wears them. In 1950, Lowe opened Ann Lowe's Gowns in Harlem and became the go-to dress designer for for the highest of high society-the Rockefellers, the Roosevelts, the du Ponts. Taylor Design School, which hadn't realized they'd admitted a Black woman so were required to segregate.
She moved to New York and enrolled in S.T. Ann was left to finish her mother's last job: The creation of four ballgowns for the First Lady of Alabama. When Lowe was 16, her mother died suddenly. Ann Lowe was born in Clayton, Alabama in 1898 and learned her dressmaking skills from her mother, who made dresses for society women in the South.
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