Glynnis MacNichol

So I think there's something very charming about having lived that New York with an absolute absence of awareness of the biggest cultural phenomenon of that was happening at the time.

Anyways, Carolyn Bessette, I do think it's very difficult to convey, especially in the environment we're in now,

The all-encompassing nature of her, particularly in New York in the late 90s.

She was everywhere.

She didn't look like anyone else.

I think one of the reasons we still talk about her is her sense of style.

It was timeless in a way, in the truest sense of the word, that you could walk out in any of her outfits today and they would absolutely...

be of this moment too.

When I encountered her, and I was in university on the West Coast of Canada, was when she emerged on the Tribeca doorstep shortly after their wedding.

And she was in this pencil tan Prada skirt, a black V-necks cashmere sweater, these amazing knee-high leather boots, which I don't think I'd ever seen leather boots like that before.

She had this blonde, blonde hair, and she didn't look like anyone else.

We were coming out of that era of the supermodel.

She didn't, she was what my father would have said, like striking as opposed to beautiful.

And this was only 10 days after that famous wedding photo with her wedding dress was like, oh, can you wear that to a wedding?

It was that white slip dress.

She looks so casual.

And for a 22 year old who'd been reading Vogue for 10 years and watching fashion television, but was still walking around in Doc Martens and like,

cut off shorts that was just like, oh my God, what is this alien creature?

Yeah, it was such a big deal that I was watching one of the Sunday political shows this week with David Brinkley.

Like, this is the era we're talking about.