Designing Tomorrow With Yesterday's Cornerstones

HAPPY 110th BIRTHDAY

The LKAL Legacy, LLC was created in April 2022 to update the1982 book, 

BLACKS IN THE HISTORY OF FASHION.  In collectively broadening the 

historical foundation of the late Lois K. Alexander-Lane’s mission to raise 

and expand the cultural consciousness and acknowledgment of the 

contributions by people of the African Diaspora to the trade of fashion, it is 

timely to amplify this message thru public programs and future book sales.

Lois K Alexander-Lane (1916-2007), Founder & Director of the Harlem 

Institute of Fashion (HIF/1966), The Black Fashion Museum (BFM/1979) 

and author of BLACKS IN THE HISTORY OF FASHION.  The BFM 

collection of 2,000 artifacts from 1800-2000, consists of garments, 

accessories and archival documentation, was donated in 2006 to the 

National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) in

 Washington, DC.

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National Council of Negro Women

Mary McLeod Bethune, Founder (1935)