Vanessa Friedman, the fashion director and chief fashion critic for the New York Times, proposed a different theory to explain Carolyn’s fashion resurgence, speculating 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 has become a stand-in for who she was.” Carolyn’s style was intentionally unostentatious—no detail was overlooked, but nothing she wore meant to scream for attention. She had an interest in sustainability before it
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