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African American couturier Ann Lowe created Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress for her marriage to JFK in 1953. Find out why the designer’s name was lost to history for decades.
Get details about the wedding dress Jackie Onassis Kennedy wore to wed John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953. It's now considered one of Jackie O's most iconic outfits.
O n the day Jacqueline Lee Bouvier married John F. Kennedy in 1953, she wore a custom gown by Ann Lowe (Fig. 1). Some have called it the “most photographed wedding dress in history” (Carter). The dress, made with fifty yards of ivory silk taffeta, had the dramatic “New Look” silhouette fashionable of the early 1950s.
The gown, like those worn by Kennedy’s bridesmaids, was the work of African American designer Ann Lowe, who died in February 1981. “That dress she made for Jackie Kennedy was widely...
Bridal portrait of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in her Ann Lowe–designed wedding dress, a bouquet of flowers in her hands. Sixty-four years ago on this day, John F. Kennedy was just a guy marrying...
Ann Lowe is the designer who created Jackie Kennedy's iconic wedding dress. Here, we relive her career and legacy.
The ivory tissue-silk dress, with a portrait neckline and bouffant skirt with wax flowers, was an immediate success; the look, complete with an heirloom rose-point lace veil and pearls, is one of...