A Dream to Live in New York

But greater things were in store for the 6-foot-tall blonde. While walking down Boston’s trendy Newbury Street, Bessette Kennedy was hired to work at a local Calvin Klein boutique. She was a personal shopper for celebrity clients when the siren song of New York called.

     Calvin Klein himself whisked her away for publicity job in his New York corporate office.

     “I think that she gave Calvin a lot of inspiration in terms of her personal style,” Sciascia Gambaccini, the fashion director for Marie Claire magazine and former Klein employee, told New York magazine.

     Bessette Kennedy, fashion editors said, was “herself the best advertisement for Mr. Klein’s clothes, and her all-American beauty the perfect public face for a design house, where image is crucial.”

     “She was ‘The Look,’” said a former Calvin Klein employee, who remembers how Zach Carr, a designer for Mr. Klein, would often say, “I wonder how Carolyn would put this together.”

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