I received the book Black Designers in American Fashion edited by Elizabeth Way, https://amzn.to/3viLKrh I love finding out how the powerful the needle has been through out history for African Americans. Harriet Jacobs was new to me. She was an escaped slave, seamstress, author, and abolitionist. Her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, gives her account of being enslaved and the escape through freedom. Here is a portion of the ad for capture : Being a good seamstress, she has been accustomed to dress well, has a variety of very fine clothes, made in the prevailing fashion, and will probably appear, if abroad, tricked out in gay and fashionable finery. As this girl absconded...
While in DC got to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture. These photos are in no particular order, the museum is so full, you can't get through it in one day.....however I did try.
This is the last in the series, Making of the Anna Murray Douglass dress. The dress was created from a plum silk taffeta. I machine quilted the center front and then beaded with garnet beads. Although I sewed the majority of the dress on the sewing machine, my thoughts is that the dress in it's time period, would have been made by hand. I didn't have that kind of time. Link in bio for other videos in this series Anna Murray Douglass It was such a beautiful event. Ms. Lana Turner planned this event in a short period, but the real miracle was how she met Michelle V. Agins from the New York Times. At a party they met...
I am lucky....I have been blessed to have been photographed by a Pulitzer Prize and Lucie Award Photojournalist, NY Times. ....and even luckier to attend this incredible awards ceremony, here is my perspective from the balcony. The Lucie Awards is the premiere annual event honoring the greatest achievements in photography https://lucies.org/. This night was Michelle V. Agins (https://www.nytimes.com/by/michelle-v... ) night to shine. She was being honored for her Achievements in Photojournalism. Also in the mix was William Pickney (https://bit.ly/3W4CoM5), the first African American, and only the fourth person in the world to circumnavigate the globe alone by boat. The next night, Mystic Seaport Museum to Honor William Pinkney with the America and the Sea Award. Music: Epidemic Sound, Matt Large/...
