Everyday Icon by Kate Betts

Author:Kate Betts [Betts, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-95266-0
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

With her meticulous style Jacqueline Kennedy elevated America’s taste. But her look was never static; she evolved over time and continued to be copied long after she left the White House. Michael Kors talks about how her “props”—big sunglasses, sleeveless dresses, and three-strand pearl necklaces—are as relevant today as they were in 1961.

The “Jackie look” or “props” include (clockwise from top left) the sleeveless dress; the streamlined trench coat, oversized sunglasses, and Gucci shoulder bag; and cropped pants; and the ribbed turtleneck and jeans were also a part of her windblown, natural look.

“THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS people are always a product of their time. And Jackie Kennedy is still influential to designers because when she came along she really blew the dust off of the past. For the first time you had a First Lady who was bare legged at church in flat sandals. I think she’s really the first person who took us into modern times, and that’s why we keep referring back to her style. She had the elegance of the past and then she had this kind of easiness that was so modern. She was also the first woman who made everyone realize that style is not necessarily just about the dress, it’s about the woman. It’s not necessarily what she wore, but how she wore it. She understood that.

Her style was so much about putting on a dressy dress and saying, Well, don’t you like that with flip-flops and bare legs? She was also surrounded by a lot of people who weren’t in the public eye from whom she picked up on all of those ideas. She was looking at C. Z. Guest and Slim Keith and all of these society women in the 1960s and saying, ‘Oh, wait a second …’ And, let’s be honest, in those days, except for a very select group of people, no one really knew who those women were, so it was Jackie who popularized their look.

I’m always influenced by the fact that she understood the yin and yang of style. For example, if she wore something romantic, then she tempered it with something butch. If one piece of her look was over-the-top, then something else was streamlined. It was always this weird give-and-take, and I think to this day that is what makes fashion applicable for most women. When you look at something, you want it to be at the same time new and invigorating, but you also want it to be familiar like an old friend. You want it to be the best of both and I don’t think that goes away. That’s why the way she dressed through all the years is still so right for today.

She also stayed current, whether it was the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s she did the best thing for her style in each decade. She did the working-woman, Faye Dunaway–Network look better than Faye Dunaway in the 1970s. She did the strong-shouldered, chic adult in the 1980s, she did glamorous jet set in the late 1960s, and she did fresh, sporty young mom in the early 1960s.

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