Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

[McClaire]

pictures like that make me sad. I wish both were still here. they seemed to have so much life in them so much happiness.

 

[daas]

People.

 

[McClaire]

From the Huffington post.com

They have an slide show plus a little article marking the 10 year anniversary nothing new as far pics but thought I'd post the link

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/...nnedy_n_234223.html?slidenumber=0#slide_image

 

[McClaire]

*Some* of the pictures aren't showing for me so if these are re-posts my apologies.







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[McClaire]

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[McClaire]

From Vanity Fair

The Private Princess

With her dazzling blond head set firmly on her elegant shoulders, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy confronted a ravenous spotlight—and the inevitable comparisons to Jackie—from the moment she stepped out of that tiny Cumberland Island chapel at John Kennedy's side. But to those around her, and to photographer Bruce Weber, she showed a face of laughter, a wealth of tenderness, and a profound commitment to her husband, friends, and family during her brief but spirited life.

by Evgenia Peretz September 1999


Related article: "Great Expectations," by David Michaelis, September 1999.
View photos of John Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
Just as John F. Kennedy Jr. was inextricably bound to his father's legacy, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, from the moment she wed John on Cumberland Island

in 1996, was destined to be enshrined by the media as the next Jackie Onassis. And, really, who could blame them? There were, for one thing, the on-paper similarities: like Jackie, Carolyn was Catholic and her parents divorced. And then there was that look: that smart, minimalist sexiness that instantly made her a gold standard of modern beauty. With a public aloofness that was invariably termed "mystique," Carolyn, as the new Mrs. Kennedy, had the fashion world clamoring for interviews and covers, scrutinizing her hemlines, and coining such phrases as "throwaway chic" and "effortful effortless."
Perhaps the reason that Carolyn never quite achieved Jackie's fashion-icon status was that she never really wanted to. For Carolyn, who was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, by her schoolteacher mother and orthopedist stepfather, life was simply too much fun for that. And it always had been. After being called "the ultimate beautiful person" in her high-school yearbook, the ambitious young woman got down to business: as an education student at Boston University, Carolyn displayed a keen status radar early on, dating Italian clothing heir Alessandro Benetton and future N.H.L. star John Cullen. Her entrée into the fashion universe was equally smooth. After college, she worked briefly as a salesgirl in Boston's Calvin Klein boutique. In 1989 it was on to New York, after she had been hired by Paul Wilmot to join Calvin Klein's P.R. department. By day, she helped dress the likes of Blaine Trump, Nan Kempner, and Diane Sawyer. By night, she hit the downtown club scene. New York was her element, and Carolyn let her natural moxie shine.
As for how girl met boy, the fairy-tale version has them jogging into each other in Central Park. More likely, they met through their mutual friend Kelly Klein—and there was little fairy-tale about it. A proponent of postfeminist courtship, Carolyn was a Rules girl who would never have been caught reading the actual book. When John held back, Carolyn would remind him about underwear model (and future Baywatch star) Michael Bergin, who was still on her back burner. Carolyn could also give John hell. The indelible images of Carolyn and John, however, are of them holding hands, her sitting in his lap, and the two kissing, laughing, or just gazing at each other. For all of her sass, Carolyn was, at her core, deeply devoted to those she loved. A wonderful listener, she would happily indulge her friends, even in their most endless stories. She phoned John at George several times a day, and acted as the unofficial hostess at the magazine's functions.
In October 1996, when John and Carolyn returned from their honeymoon to find a herd of reporters camped out in front of their Tribeca loft, John pleaded with the paparazzi to leave Carolyn alone. He understood that the "mystique" thing was nonsense—that Bessette was not an icon, but a wife, a worker, a daughter, and a friend, with an insatiable appetite for life.
Evgenia Peretz is a Vanity Fair contributing edito

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[McClaire]

I love these pictures it looks like she's casing the joint or something





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[daas]

I really enjoyed your most recent posts, McClaire. Karma!!!

 

[iluvjeisa]

The cendre hair gives her a darker allure...beautiful.

 

[daas]

She married "the sexiest man".

People

 

[McClaire]

epa.eu

 

[McClaire]

My favorite look of her:


ultimate carolyn

 

[Ashcottmanor]

She looked good dressed down and she looked good dressed up. She always looked good imo. She just had a certain type of class.

 

[littleblacksheep]

I loved how she would have any obvious labels taken off her clothes - like that time she was ordering some Prada Sport clothes and for her they especially removed the red tag from them for her.

 

[cheiby11]

I love their wedding pictures

 

[Thefrenchy]

Great thread, I'm glad I found it!

Is there one for JFK Jr? If not, I'd be pleased to make one

 

[peppi]

^There a thread for him

 

[limo]

She really had great style.

 

[Ashcottmanor]

Happy Birthday Carolyn!! She would have been 44 today.

 

[limo]

How tall was Carolyn? Clothes fit amazingly on her?