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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

Fashion's Muse of the Moment

Nov 07, 2023
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If there was one consistent theme that ran through the fashion shows last spring and this fall in New York, London, Milan and Paris, it was that 1990s minimalism is back in style, and with it, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John Kennedy Jr. and the It Girl of that era.

Her reign, like her father-in-law’s presidency, lasted a thousand days. But what an influential period for style it was.

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