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词条 Lois K. Alexander Lane
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  1. Personal life

  2. Career

  3. Death and legacy

  4. References

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Lois K. Alexander-Lane (born Lois Marie Kindle; 11 June 1916[1] - 29 September 2007) was an African American fashion designer and founded the Black Fashion Museum in 1979.

Personal life

Alexander-Lane was born in Little Rock, Arkansas.[2]

Alexander-Lane received her master's degree at New York University in 1963, she proposed a thesis on the historic role of African Americans in Manhattan retailing; her professor responded by saying African Americans played no such role. Her resulting thesis—and later her life's work—proved otherwise.[3]

Career

The Black Fashion Museum first opened in 1979 in Harlem, originally established in Harlem on West 126th Street that now houses the William J. Clinton Foundation.[4] The museum relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1994 to a historic row house at 2007 Vermont Ave. NW.[5]

Death and legacy

Alexander-Lane eventually published her own book, Blacks in the History of Fashion in 1982. Alexander-Lane died in 2007 at the age of 91. The Black Fashion Museum collection was donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2007 by her daughter Joyce Bailey.[6]

"The Black Fashion Museum collection was originally stored in a two-story row house on Vermont Avenue in Washington, D.C. The collection comprises more than 700 garments, 300 accessories, and 60 boxes of archival material collected by Alexander-Lane throughout her life. The research collection—one of the largest and rarest of its kind—includes a dress sewn by Rosa Parks shortly before her famous arrest in Montgomery, Ala.; a beige-patterned skirt worn by an enslaved child in Leesburg, Va.; the original Tin Man costume designed by Geoffrey Holder for the 1975 Broadway musical, The Wiz."[7]

"Clothing and bonnets worn by slaves in the mid-1800s appear alongside an elaborately constructed opera cape made by a former slave. Other items include gowns by Ann Lowe, a pioneering African American designer whose patrons included the Rockefellers, the Du Ponts, the Vanderbilts, and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. 'The objects not only tell the story of black fashion,' Moresi says, 'but of the women and men who created them, wore them and held on to them for years.' "[8]

References

1. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/26/AR2007102602221.html|title=Lois Alexander Lane; Founder Of Harlem Institute of Fashion|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|date=2007-10-27|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-03-29}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101654_3.html?sid=ST2010052101774|title=Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian|date=2010-05-23|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-03-19}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://nmaahc.si.edu/Collections/BlackFashion|title=Black Fashion Museum Collection Collections {{!}} National Museum of African American History and Culture|website=nmaahc.si.edu|access-date=2016-03-19}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101654_3.html?sid=ST2010052101774|title=Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian|date=2010-05-23|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-03-19}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101654.html?sid=ST2010052101774|title=Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian|last=Givhan|first=Robin|date=2010-05-23|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-03-19}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052101654.html?sid=ST2010052101774|title=Black Fashion Museum collection finds a fine home with Smithsonian|last=Givhan|first=Robin|date=2010-05-23|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-03-19}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://nmaahc.si.edu/Collections/BlackFashion|title=Black Fashion Museum Collection Collections {{!}} National Museum of African American History and Culture|website=nmaahc.si.edu|access-date=2016-03-19}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://nmaahc.si.edu/Collections/BlackFashion|title=Black Fashion Museum Collection Collections {{!}} National Museum of African American History and Culture|website=nmaahc.si.edu|access-date=2016-03-19}}
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