#STUDIOMUSE 🪡 Lois K. Alexander-Lane, who founded The Harlem Institute of Fashion in 1966 and The Black Fashion Museum in 1979, dedicated her life to educating the world on the centuries of contributions people of the African diaspora have made to fashion and design. (Photos via Ebony Magazine May, 1988 by Marilyn Marshall) Alexander-Lane also published the textbook “Blacks in the History of Fashion” in 1982, chronicling over 300 years of African American fashion history. (Photo by Kwame Brathwaite, 1990)