Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian
Lois Alexander Lane, founded, curated and kept on life support for almost 30 years the Black Fashion Museum. The modest monument to African American creativity first opened its doors in 1979 in an unremarkable Harlem brownstone.
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In 1994, it relocated to Washington. And among its most resonant artifacts are garments created by slaves, by famed dressmakers Ann Lowe and Rosa Parks, contemporary designers Stephen Burrows and Geoffrey Holder and countless anonymous seamstresses. Black history — American history — stitched out of cotton and lace.
When Lane died in 2007 at 91, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s, it fell to her Today’s Drum – Positive Black News – African American News
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