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To have it be a slip dress is a bold thing to wear it’s not even corseted. She dressed like that in photos and when I saw her in the Calvin Klein showroom. Having worked for Calvin Klein, her dress made sense to me. That was her aesthetic, and her wedding dress was a very, very bold expression of that minimalism.įashion designer Ann Mashburn: worked in fashion and was a fashion person. was revolutionary in that sense, that someone would wear something that simple. Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera were simplifying their designs, but not as simple as a slip dress.

In 1996, it was still a pretty iconic wedding dress.

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It was five-star perfection.įormer Harper’s Bazaar editor in chief Kate Betts, who at the time was working at Vogue: We were a generation that grew up watching Diana get married on TV in 1981 in that iconic wedding dress. It was lovely in its simplicity and elegance and was very much consistent with the theme or feel of the wedding. She certainly wore it beautifully and it was made for her. My dear friend designed the dress.” She knew it would be a moment where the dress would show fully…. That’s what I remember most-the magic feeling of the two of them together, the way they were. They exuded an affection that was beautiful to witness, the love felt that weekend and that night on Cumberland Island. What I remember most was the way they were around each other. It had such an incredible elegance and romance the authenticity of it all, its simplicity gives it real power. It was indicative of the way the wedding was-natural and of the moment, not trying to be any more than it was in its simplicity. It was happening in real time, and not in any way posed or arranged.

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The way she flowed in her beautiful dress, moving at full pace, coming down the steps. I was really moved by it and Carolyn’s surprise.

Then, at his own wedding, another incredibly kind, princely gesture. It was such a telling, interesting moment, him saluting his dad. The previous time we’d seen John Kennedy with an expressive gesture was 33 years before, at the burial of his father on his third birthday. For a celebrity to be that warmhearted and showing his love in that way-it was great. Reggie: It was lovely, the spontaneity of that gesture. Twenty-five years after Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy “ hands down changed the wedding dress game,” the people who watched it happen look back. “Someone I loved very much asked me to make the most important dress of her life.” That life turned out to be much shorter than anyone expected at the time-Bessette-Kennedy was 33 when she and her husband died in a private plane crash in July 1999. “It was a great moment in my career but also a beautiful moment in my personal life,” he told Vogue in 2018. Bessette chose her close friend Narciso Rodriguez, who had worked with her at Calvin Klein, and instantly made the designer a household name the next year, he launched his own eponymous label. The wedding was an event, but the dress was what changed everything. For their rehearsal dinner and reception, they celebrated at the island’s Greyfield Inn, where most of their guests stayed as well. It was one of the most anticipated nuptials since Princess Diana and Prince Charles, but instead of a cathedral filled with thousands of people, the couple chose the First African Baptist Church on Cumberland Island, Georgia, with about 40 guests in attendance. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette was ready to surprise.

For her September 21, 1996, wedding to John F.

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