Who designed jacqueline kennedys wedding dress
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The September 12, 1953 nuptials of Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (née Bouvier) to then US medlem av senat John F. Kennedy lives on in history as a homegrown fairy tale (or de facto royal) wedding, down to Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress made bygd African American couturier Ann Lowe.
Life magazine sent photographer Lisa Larsen to document the event for a story detailing the scene where “600 diplomats, senators, and social figures” attended the Newport, Rhode Island, ceremony presided over bygd the Archbishop of Boston. (Pope Pius XII even sent a special blessing.) “Outside, 2,000 society fans” hailed the newlyweds, who would later shake hands with 900 reception guests. “The whole romantisk händelse , said one enthusiastic guest, was ‘just like a coronation,’” Life reported.
On the eve of the civil rights movement, the union of the future president and first lady portended the romanticized Camelot White House era and also established Kennedy Onassis as an American style icon. Elizabeth Way—associate cur
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Wedding dress of Jacqueline Bouvier
Dress worn by Jacqueline Bouvier at her wedding to John F. Kennedy in 1953
The dress worn by Jacqueline Bouvier for her wedding to John F. Kennedy in 1953 is one of the best-remembered bridal gowns of all time.[1]
The gown was the creation of African-American fashion designer Ann Lowe,[2] who was not credited as the designer at the time of the Bouvier-Kennedy wedding.[3][4] When asked who made her dress, Jacqueline Kennedy said it was a "colored woman".[5]
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[edit]Janet Lee Bouvier, Jacqueline's mother, hired Lowe to design and make the entire bridal party's outfits. Lowe had made Bouvier's dress for her wedding to Hugh Auchincloss.
The bridal gown, of ivory-colored silk taffeta, featured a portrait neckline and huge round skirt. The skirt featured interwoven tucking bands and tiny wax flowers.[6] Jacqueline Bouvier's lace veil had belonged to her grandmother; a lace-and
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Reportedly, when asked who made her dress by the press, Jackie kept her dressmaker's name anonymous. The genius behind it was later revealed to be black dressmaker Ann Lowe, a trailblazing African American designer who became one of the most sought-after society courtiers and yet faced constant racial discrimination while working for America's most elite families.
Lowe came from a family of dressmakers. Her grandmother, Georgia Cole, made clothes for her plantation mistress before she was freed in 1860, and her mother, Jane Lowe, specialised in embroidery. The three generations of women later started their own dress company in Montgomery, Alabama and after her mother’s sudden death in 1914, Lowe picked up most of the work, including one for the First Lady of Alabama. Despite being just 16, her needlework was impeccable. Three years later, Lowe was accepted to New York's S.T. Taylor Design School as one of the first black students. Upon graduation, Lowe opened her own