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Vanessa Friedman, the fashion director and chief fashion critic for the New York Times, proposed a different theory to explain Carolyn's fashion resurgence, explaining in an October 2023 column that Carolyn 'offered an example of a different way to be in the world, one that valorized what wasn't shown. And because she never gave a single interview after her marriage, what she wore became a stand-in for who she was.
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Elizabeth Beller (Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy)