Has it really been 25 years? It was on the evening of July 16, 1999, when a small plane carrying 33-year-old Carolyn Bessette disappeared off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with her older sister, Lauren, and her husband, the pilot of the aircraft, John F. Kennedy Jr. The story, of international proportions, focused then mostly on Kennedy .
After all, America had watched him grow up ...
when he lost his father ...
as he rode through the streets of New York ...
started a magazine called George ...
and began dating Bessette, a publicist for fashion designer Calvin Klein. John F. Kennedy Jr.
and Carolyn Bessette are pictured during a fundraising gala at the Whitney Museum in New York City, March 9, 1999. Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Twenty-five years later, what is now also coming into focus, according to author Sunita Kumar Nair, is the impact Bessette herself had on young women, then and now.
"There are TikTok accounts, social media accounts, all based on Carolyn's style," she said. @anastasiiark part 1 of carolyn looks šø #fyp #foryou #carolynbessettekennedy #timelessfashion #recreatingoutfits #pinterestoutfit #classicwardrobe ā¬ original sound - P More significantly, according to Kumar Nair, fashion designers today still look to Bessette for inspiration: "For example, long opera gloves that she had worn were recently in the runway at Marc Jacobs." In "CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion" (published by Abrams), Kumar Nair tak.
