Robert Casadesus. Besides practicing six to eight hours per day, Towles performed, earning praise for recitals at the American Embassy of Paris, the Opéra-Comique, the Gaveau Salon, and for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Late that year, she performed as the accompanist of the Fisk Jubilee Singers and hosted her sister Dorothea, who would become a model for Christian Dior. The sisters would become some of the first internationally-known high-fashion, black models. Besides Dior, they wore designs from Robert Piguet and were courted by perfumers. Towles appeared in Ebony and Jet, was featured in various fashion magazines, and was a model for the artist, Paul Colin (artist). She designed her own clothes, becoming known for trimming her concert gowns with favorite bars from scores of music. In early 1950, Towles played in her New York debut at The Town Hall and toured for thirty days throughout the United States. She resigned from Fisk in 1952, and throughout the early 1950s, traveled back and forth between Paris and the United States performing music and developing a fashion show and music platform performance with her sister Dorothea. The sisters hosted many recitals which combined fashion and music for their sorority sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha. In 1956, while appearing at a concert in San Francisco, she rekindled a friendship with Richard Caesar, whom she had met while she was teaching at Fisk and he was attending dental school. He had established a successful dental practice in San Francisco and soon after meeting again, they married on June 6, 1956. Though she would continue performing for another ten years, after her marriage Towles took the name Lois Towels Caesar and began focusing on community activism and development. Community activism (1956–1983) In 1958, Caesar co-sponsored Leontyne Price's debut recital at the San Francisco Opera House and helped establish the Symphony-in-Schools program, to encourage youth in music education She also developed the "Start a Symphony Family" plan to allow people with limited means to participate in cultural events, scholarship programs to assist young people in attaining arts careers, and a work program to allow youths to work as ushers and hostesses of the symphony. Caesar worked with the service organization The Links Incorporated to develop an art program which promoted the works of young artists. From the early 1960s to 1965, she and her sister operated a finishing school in San Francisco,