Jackie Kennedy arrives in Paris, May 1961
The fashion icon above all was First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who had arrived in Paris the year before the demoiselles.
For Evelyn, in particular, she was a heroine. Her picture hung above Evelyn’s bed where others might have had a cross, or an image of the Virgin Mary.
- The Kennedys with President Charles de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace, 1961
Sitting at tea in a ritzy salon, Evelyn had a realization: If Jackie Kennedy had been sitting in her place, all the French women of style would look to her, the American, to copy.”
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