Jackie Kennedy - a fashion icon of the past

Jackie Kennedy presented a very different fashion picture in the early 1960s. After her husband’s election, her beauty, love for clothes, and the sense of style set her apart from her rather plain predecessors as First Lady.

Criticized in some quarters for wearing European fashions, she patronized American designers, particularly Oleg Cassini.

Her inauguration outfit of a fawn-colored woolen coat with matching pillbox hat was instantly copied by thousands of women. Semi fitted jackets, A – line skirts falling to the knees, blouses falling at the hip bone are some of the pieces clipped from “Jackie's look”.

Though she was First Lady for only few years, Jackie Kennedy’s modern elegance had a long-lasting influence in the fashion world.