By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

by Piper Huguley

Book Overview

The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy.

1953, New York City

Less than a week before the society wedding of the year where Jacqueline Bouvier will marry John F. Kennedy, a pipe bursts at Ann Lowe's dress shop and ruins eleven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063059746
• ISBN13: 9780063059740
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 7.7"