Carolyn Besstte-Kennedy may have married into a dynasty, but she didn’t let that intimidate her. She always seemed to be comfortable in her skin, which is perhaps her biggest style secret: confidence. “Carolyn created her looks so simply, but without her confidence and inner strength I feel like they would have been nothing,” celebrity stylist Wayne Scott Lukas, who knew her when she was still working for Calvin Klein, told Sunita Kuma Nair in “CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion.” Lukas added, “She dressed from the inside out, and that’s what made her different.”
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“I’m not comfortable in anything ornate. I like clean and understated looks,” the former Calvin Klein publicist famously told Glamour in the ’90s. Indeed, the champion of quiet luxury didn’t over-accessorize. She rarely wore jewelry — not even during her own secret wedding ceremony.She opted for a sleek hairdo and bright red lipstick, all sans accessories.
So, if you want to steal her quiet-luxury style, we’re sorry to break it to you, but you’ll, unfortunately, have to part ways with this year’s XXL jewelry trend. Keep things simple, embrace unpretentious elegance, and a style that doesn’t cry out for attention. In doing so, we’re willing to bet that you will indeed make heads turn much like the queen of quiet luxury did.
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