TriStar Sets Biopic of Pioneering Fashion Designer Ann Lowe with Serena Williams, Ruth Carter (Exclusive)

Ann Lowe — the pioneering dressmaker and American couturier — is getting the biopic therapy at TriStar due to Serena Williams and Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth Carter.

Sony’s TriStar Footage acquired the pitch for the mission, titled The Costume, about Lowe, one of many nation’s most prolific but in addition least-known couturiers. Lowe, who died in 1981, designed mid-century wardrobes for the largest names in American society and business, together with members of the Rockefeller, Roosevelt, Du Pont and Whitney households.

The story will deal with how Lowe, who was the primary Black lady to personal a store on Madison Avenue, was commissioned to design the marriage costume that Jackie Bouvier wore at her 1953 wedding ceremony to John F. Kennedy.

Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, the writers behind the Mister Rogers film A Lovely Day in The Neighborhood, will pen the screenplay based mostly on the guide By Her Personal Design by Piper Huguley.

Williams and Caroline Currier will produce by way of 9 Two Six Productions. Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster will even produce by way of their firm Blue Harp. Carter, who received two Oscars for costume design for Black Panther and follow-up Wakanda Perpetually, will govt produce and likewise be the movie’s costume designer.

Shary Shirazi, who introduced within the pitch, will oversee for TriStar, together with studio president Nicole Brown.

Williams, who’s repped by WME and Foster Garvey PC, launched 9 Two Six Productions in 2023. 9 Two Six produced the ladies’s soccer doc Copa 71, and ESPN+’s In The Enviornment: Serena Williams. 

Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster, whose different credit Clear and Netflix sequence Painkiller, are repped by UTA and Kaplan/Perrone. Their different studio characteristic credit embody Disney title Maleficent and the studio’s upcoming live-action remake of Bambi.