New York's Metropolitan Museum takes a feminist look at global fashion

The exhibition was originally scheduled for 2020 to celebrate a century of women's suffrage in the US, but delayed by the pandemic. Photo: AFP

New York's Metropolitan Museum has pulled the curtain back on its latest blockbuster exhibit, showcasing women couturiers many of whom have been kept in the shadows of obscurity until now.

One of the centerpieces of the Women Dressing Women exhibition is a dress by pioneering African-American designer Ann Lowe who was largely ignored in her day, even though she designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding gown in 1953.