Alexandra Jacobs

was besieged not only, I mean, he had women throwing themselves at him all the time.

You know, what we know about her and as depicted on the show, she did not seem particularly wowed by him.

Carolyn Bissett's style, I think of it as a sort of very high-end version of, frankly, The Gap.

Which I don't mean as an insult.

I mean, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was wearing really sort of basic minimalist items, which is really kind of a palate cleanser after the Rococo fancy over-the-top style of the 80s that was perhaps embodied more by the Trumps.

This was like a kind of broom and, you know, the labels she preferred like Prada or Yoji Yamamoto.

These were very kind of stark lines and classic silhouettes.

But I think part of the appeal is that they're refreshing to the eye.

That's right.

And I really do think there's, for younger people, there's probably some level of exhaustion with how much you are all marketed to and how much trends change now.

So to see these sort of clean, simple lines must be very appealing.

I never expected to see this era romanticized in the way that it has been.

I think that there is tremendous nostalgia for a time before iPhones.

Certainly a time before 9-11.

A time when creative people could afford to live in Manhattan, perhaps with...

But, you know, still still knock out a living there, a time when creative industries were unthreatened by artificial intelligence and, you know, writing for magazines or or working for a fashion designer seemed like a viable career path.

You had a phone on your desk.

You might have had a cell phone, but it didn't contain... You weren't ordering your lunch.

You know, you weren't, like, ordering your lunch from an app.

You were maybe wandering down the street.