How best to underscore that Black designer Ann Lowe never received the credit and attention she deserved during her long-lived career? The new exhibition of fashion installed in the American Wing @metmuseum achieves this brilliantly by having mannequins styled as Ann Lowe appear as chic, black-clad and -veiled apparitions captured in the act of tweaking her designs of debutante, wedding and evening gowns custom made for wealthy white clients. "Invisibility was the cloak she wore" as director Julie Dash eloquently puts it in her statement. One of the room installations in the wide-ranging Costume Institute exhibition "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," the scene here is a Renaissance Revival space designed by Augustus Truesdell for Jedediah Wilcox, well-heeled Connecticut manufacturer of corsets and hoop skirts, even carpet bags, 1868 - 1870. The Ann Lowe designs here: evening gown, 1957, embroidery and flowers in blue, @hbplantmuseum in Tampa. 1957 ball gown with red rose @museumofcityny. White evening gown, 1960s, with pink versions of Lowe's signature appliqués and 1941 wedding dress, both @metcostumeinstitute. On the desk besides Lowe's eyeglasses there are framed photographs of the dress she famously designed (anonymously and had to make twice) for Jacqueline Bouvier's wedding to Sen John F. Kennedy, 1953, and the dress worn by Olivia de Havilland to the 1947 Oscars. Last swipe: Ann Lowe looking quite elegant at a white tie event, circa 1957, wearing what seems to be an identical dress to the one in the Plant Museum. #rundontwalk#mustsee#americanfashionananthology@metmuseum#annlowe#annlowedesigner#blackfashiondesigner#americanfashion#fashionatthemuseum#fashionexhibitions#metinamerica