User:CherminH/Lois K. Alexander Lane

Early Life and Education

Due to her race she was never allowed in the stores to look around. Using the sketches she would draw, Alexander-Lane would make clothing for her mother, siblings and dolls from fabric she would pick up at the Five & Dime store.

Career

In the 1940s, Alexander-Lane started her career path in the federal government, and soon after ran a fashion boutique in Washington D.C. Around this time, She also worked as a freelance photographer for African-American newspapers, and became vice president of the Capital Press Club.

Alexander-Lane has designed an extended line of garments, mostly for wealthy Sponsors; extending from the Rockefellers, Roosevelts, and Duponts. She had also deigned First lady Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding gown.

Alexander-Lane was part of the board of the National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers, being a former President.

Alexander-Lane was part of The National Council of Negro Women, being a charter member for them.

Alexander-Lane became a show producer for Harlem week, a week or sometimes month long event which showed off Halems fashion, in 1979.

In 1992, due to her endeavors on refining New York's poverty residents' lives, Alexander-Lane was given the Josephine Shaw Lowell Award.

Bibliography

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“Black Fashion Museum Collection Finds a Fine Home with Smithsonian.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 23 May 2010, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101654_3.html?sid=ST2010052101774

“Celebrating a Fashion Icon: Lois K Alexander Lane.” National Museums Liverpool, https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/celebrating-fashion-icon-lois-k-alexander-lane

“History of the Black Fashion Museum - Gift of the Black Fashion Museum Founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane - Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/history-of-the-black-fashion-museum-gift-of-the-black-fashion-museum-founded-by-lois-k-alexander-lane/SgE8DQmErqtpig?hl=en&avm=3

“Lois Alexander Lane, Fashion Designer Born.” African American Registry, 10 July 2021, [https://aaregistry.org/story/lois-alexander-lane-born/. https://aaregistry.org/story/lois-alexander-lane-born/.]

“Lois K. Alexander Lane - Google Arts & Culture.” Google, Google, https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/lois-k-alexander-lane/g11cmdh75_3?hl=en.

“Lois K. Alexander Lane: Founder of the Harlem Institute of Fashion & Black Fashion Museum.” Black Then, 2 Feb. 2017, https://blackthen.com/lois-k-alexander-lane-founder-harlem-institute-fashion-black-fashion-museum/