Now you see me: the Black fashion designers overlooked by history

Born into slavery, Elizabeth Keckley, pictured here, went on to become a seamstress for Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd, during the civil war era. ‘There was triumph in Keckley’s designs and in her ascent to being Lincoln’s primary dressmaker for seven years,’ writes Prempeh in her new book. She…

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