Regina King shouted her out. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has her gowns on display. And it all started with a needle, some thread and unmatched talent in the “Harlem of the South.” Meet Fannie Criss Payne, a 20th-century trailblazing dressmaker who broke every rule of segregated business by creating breathtaking fashion that captivated even the very people who were trying to hold her back. In the early 1900s, before Black fashion designers wer…
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