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‘The antithesis of what Gen Z grew up with’: Love Story inspires fervor for Carolyn Bessette’s style | Fashion

‘The antithesis of what Gen Z grew up with’: Love Story inspires fervor for Carolyn Bessette’s style | Fashion

While US pop culture has a long-held fascination with the Kennedys, much of the recent fervor around FX’s newest hit show, Love Story, has been aimed at the style of Carolyn Bessette, who worked as a publicist at Calvin Klein before marrying into America’s most storied political family. Open up TikTok and you’ll see influencers doing their best to recreate her looks and makeup routines. Brands are invoking Bessette to promote their products; hair care brand Schwarzkopf posted about a highlighting technique the brand called “foiled cashmere, inspired by Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy”. And the fervor makes sense – Love Story, which chronicles the dramatic and ultimately tragic romance between John F Kennedy Jr. and Bessette, has become FX’s most-watched limited series ever on streaming, with more than 25m hours viewed across the first five episodes on Disney+ and Hulu, the network recently announced. Given that Bessette was both incredibly private and fashionable, those seeking to emulate her have previously relied on paparazzi photos or red carpet shots; now, they’re being influenced by Love Story. Sarah Pidgeon …

How ‘Love Story’ Recreated John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Wedding, Down to the Last Cigarette

How ‘Love Story’ Recreated John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Wedding, Down to the Last Cigarette

The room watched JFK Jr. and Carolyn’s Wedding: The Lost Tapes to get a feel for the order of operations. Listening to attendees share memories from the occasion, we were struck by the joy and reverence and warmth that friends and family of the couple still felt about that weekend 25 years later. We wanted the drama of the wedding episode to mimic the conflict surrounding any wedding, which is to say the drama of logistics. Who’s sitting where? Which friends made the cut for the guest list? Who’s wearing what? Unlike every other episode of the show, this is the one where John and Carolyn are in total lockstep, working as a team to achieve a shared goal. It’s them against the world. It’s the height of their romance, when everything seems possible. The plan was to illustrate this with two moments set to iconic ’90s songs. Moment one: Their dance to the Pulp song “Common People” at the top of the episode. But there was a snag: When it came time to clear …

More Importantly, What Was the Weather Like During JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Infamous Park Fight?

More Importantly, What Was the Weather Like During JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Infamous Park Fight?

I’m having a lot of fun watching Love Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, but as someone who is not obsessed, fascinated by, or even particularly interested in the Kennedy family or John Jr. and Carolyn, I’m not watching with a keen eye for lore and doing the Leo-in-Once Upon a Time-point meme the way the rest of you are every time the show faithfully recreates a paparazzi photo or references something iconic. Of course I’ve seen the infamous photos of John and Carolyn barking on each other in the street, because I have a pulse and an Instagram account, but it wasn’t until I noted the title of this week’s episode, “Battery Park,” that I realized that this particular recorded argument was A Thing. As dramatized by writer Kim Rosenstock and director Crystle Roberson Dorsey, it’s a great sequence in its own right, occasionally moving, even (the way Sarah Pidgeon casually says she doesn’t believe in marriage but is down to do it with John only to tearfully exclaim “Oh my God” as she …

Did ‘Love Story’ Get John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Big Fight Right?

Did ‘Love Story’ Get John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s Big Fight Right?

With episode five, “Battery Park,” Love Story finally reached the fight story. The latest installment of the FX series—which aired just a day after the 30th anniversary of the incident—recreated the infamous confrontation between John F. Kennedy Jr. and his then-girlfriend Carolyn Bessette (as played by Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon). Taking place on February 25, 1996, in New York City’s Battery Park—not Washington Square Park, as is often incorrectly reported—the argument made headlines thanks to the presence of paparazzo Angie Coqueran, whose photographs were soon splashed all over the National Enquirer and New York Daily News. “Unfortunately, they had a very private situation happen very publicly,” Kelly recently told GQ. “But there’s video evidence of this, and that’s one thing that we were able to really review pretty often and choreograph, so we would kind of be as close to the real thing as we could get it, without it being tacky.” In Love Story, the public clash comes amidst friction between the duo after Bessette declines Kennedy’s recent marriage proposal. When the …