OLEG CASSINI LADIES VINTAGE (2) PC LUXURY SKIRT SUIT

Cassini Defining American Vintage Identified as a great American designer, and is best known as the “man that dressed Jackie” Mr. Cassini had the longest career of any designer in America, covering seven decades. He achieved perhaps his greatest fame as the official wardrobe designer for Jacqueline Kennedy when she was the first lady; he also designed clothes for Joan Fontaine, Joan Crawford, and other Hollywood stars and women of great wealth. But throughout his career, he also saw to it that his name appeared on ready-to-wear fashions that were affordable to average women (PHOTO) Jacqueline Kennedy wore this dress by Oleg Cassin to the pre-inaugural ball on January 19, 1961. In the contact sheets, one can see the holes in the paper created by the heels of her shoes. The holes were eliminated by retouching a print of the copy negative used to make this photograph. Photo: Richard Avedon It wasn’t until 1959 when the newly elected President John F. Kennedy asked him to be the official designer for his wife that Cassini’s dream took off He loved to recount his loves. "There were always beautiful girls," he wrote in his autobiography. He pursued and married Merry Fahrney, heiress to a cough syrup fortune. After that marriage failed, he pursued and married Gene Tierney, the actress. he was always seen in the company of heiresses, debutantes, showgirls, he dated young starlets like Betty Grable, Lana Turner, and Ursula Andress, Grace Kelly to whom he was briefly engaged