Ann Lowe: American Couturier, an interview with Elizabeth Way

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, History

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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During our annual winter hiatus, we bring you some of our favorite episodes from Dressed's back catalog. Today we revisit one of our past episodes with Elizabeth Way who joined us, on this occasion, to speak about her 2023 exhibition Ann Lowe: American Couturier, which was on view at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Custom couturier to brides, debutantes and American socialites, including Jacqueline Bouvier and Marjorie Merriweather Post, The Saturday Evening Post once called Ann Lowe "society's best kept secret." Recommended reading: Way, Elizabeth, ed. Ann Lowe: American Couturier, New York: Rizzoli Electra, 2023. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our website and classes Our Instagram Our bookshelf with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Listen ad free here! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Please enjoy this episode from the Dressed Archive of over 500 plus shows. Dressed will be back with all new content in March of 2025.
0:39.1	Until then, consider heading to Dressedhistory.com to explore our latest online fashion history classes and in-person tours
0:43.9	of Paris and New York City. More from Dressed coming your way soon. Dress, the history of fashion,
0:49.9	is a production of Dress Media.
1:13.2	With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.
1:15.1	Every day, we all get dressed.
1:20.1	Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what win of why we wear.
1:22.0	We are fashion historians and your hosts, Cassidy Zachary.
1:25.6	And April Callahan.
1:28.3	Dress listeners, we are so pleased to have the opportunity to stitch together some rarer pieces of American fashion history today.
1:37.3	And along the way, bust a few fashion history myths.
1:41.2	Yay!
1:41.7	Which is, of course, something that we love to do on dressed.
1:45.7	And today's subject has famously been called, quote,
1:49.3	society's best kept secret by the Saturday Evening Post.
1:53.4	And that is because for more than 50 years, Anne Lowe was in many ways,
1:58.5	American fashion's fairy godmother, spinning the sartorial dreams of thousands of debutants and rise into reality.
2:05.8	And I'm sure our listeners are going to join us and saying we are so excited for this episode.
2:10.9	We've talked about Ann Lowe so many times on the show.
2:13.2	So excited to hear your interview with Liz today, April.
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