One Special Summer with Jackie O

Jacqueline Kennedy poses in front of the Taj Mahal. Photo courtesy JFK Library.

Hegel’s caveat “history teaches us nothing” may be relevant in cultural and philosophical realities but in the design world the statement is far from succinct. No one knew this more resolutely than Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, or as we have come to affectionately call her Jackie O.

Jackie readies to toss her bouquet at her wedding JFK; photograph by Toni Frissell courtesy of WikiMedia.

She was a style-sette...