Did Calvin Klein Really Introduce JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette?
No. But she did help her become the face of Calvin Klein. In the first episode of American Love Story, Carolyn Bessette pulls Kate Moss’s headshot out of a pile of rejected photos on Calvin Klein’s desk. Bessette is said to have helped create the look of Calvin Klein’s CK One era, and among her greatest contributions was lobbying—along with art director Fabien Baron—for a then-unknown Kate Moss to appear in a 1992 underwear ad alongside Mark Wahlberg. The resulting TV ad is, to put it in the kindest possible terms, a great reminder that we’ve come a long way as a society in the last 30 years, but it would launch Moss’s career. She would soon go on to become the face of Obsession, and a definitive influence in 1990s fashion in her own right. Was Equinox a thing back in 1992? JFK Jr. in Central Park in 1997. Lawrence Schwartzwald/Getty Images Yup! But JFK Jr. probably didn’t work out there. While he may or may not have ever taken an aerobics class with …





