“Why do people always try to see me through the different names I have had at different times?” she asked in 1972. “People often forget that I was Jacqueline Bouvier before being Mrs. Kennedy or Mrs. Onassis.” She was modern now in her tight white capris and tissue-thin black tees, her nipples poking through. She strolled the streets of Greece and Italy barefoot. She wore her hair long and loose or parted down the middle, wrapped in a chic low ballet bun. She adopted two accessories that would be named after her: a slouchy Gucci horsebit handbag and enormous black sunglasses that obscured half
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