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Beauty + Style | Designer: Ann Lowe
Celebrating Black History Month
Recognizing and Honoring Achievements by African Americans The Tampa-Hillsborough County Library System and Glazer Children’s Museum are teaming up for a month-long celebration of the accomplishments of African Americans in the Tampa Bay community through a temporary exhibit called Tampa Stories. AMONG THE PEOPLE BEING RECOGNIZED IS WORLD FAMOUS CLOTHING DESIGNER ANN LOWE. She is most well-known
for designing Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s wedding gown for her marriage to then-senator John F. Kennedy.
In the 1920s, she was a highly sought after designer for the women of high society in Tampa. One of her dresses, designed for the 1926 Gasparilla Queen Katherine Broaderus, is currently on display at the Henry B. Plant Museum as part of its “Gasparilla: A Tampa Tradition” which is open to the public through Feb. 26. The Tampa Stories exhibit is now open during museum hours. Learn more: glazermuseum.org
28 TampaBayParenting.com | FEB 2017