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    Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe
    Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe
    Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe
    Audiobook29 minutes

    Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe

    Written by Kate Messner, Margaret E. Powell and Erin Robinson

    Narrated by Tracey Conyer Lee

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    A careful snip, a delicate fold. Fabric the color of new petals. Skirts that flare like upside-down blossoms. A garden bursts into bloom!

    There is no "good enough." For Ann, only the best will do.

    Award-winning author Kate Messner and costume historian Margaret E. Powell tell the powerful story of the groundbreaking Ann Lowe, who grew up in a small Alabama dress shop and became the first nationally known African American
    fashion designer. Sought after by millionaires and movie stars, her designs walked the red carpet and graced the wedding of Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier.

    At a time when the world around her thought African Americans deserved no more than second-class treatment, Ann expected no less of herself, and no less for herself, than the best.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 21, 2023
    ISBN9781705092941
    Author

    Kate Messner

    Kate Messner is an award-winning author whose many books for kids have been selected as Best Books by the New York Times, Junior Library Guild, IndieBound, and Bank Street College of Education. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family.

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