From Ann Lowe to Patrick Kelly, these are the Black designers who have helped to shape fashion history.
Ann Lowe during a fitting in 1962Creating one of the most famous wedding dress in history would make most a household name and a celebrated public figure. Not Ann Lowe . According to, when asked who made her bridal gown, Jackie Kenny told reporters, ‘a coloured dressmaker’. In fact, the only writer to correctly credit the designer’s work - a painstaking affair after a burst pipe meant she had to remake 10 of the 15 bridal party dresses at a personal loss - was’s Nina Hyde.
Born in Mississippi, Kelly was the first American designer to be admitted into the prestigious Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter, the French fashion industry’s equivalent of the CFDA, and never shied away from bringing conversations about race into his work. Streetwear is a nebulous fashion term now used to describe anything from trainers to sweatpants to hoodies but to its inventor, Willi Smith the genre couldn’t be reduced to mere garments.
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