{"id":2327982,"date":"2026-03-14T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2327982"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:55:28","slug":"love-story-fashion-consultant-reveals-the-carolyn-bessette-kennedy-outfit-she-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/love-story-fashion-consultant-reveals-the-carolyn-bessette-kennedy-outfit-she-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Love Story&#8217; fashion consultant reveals the Carolyn Bessette Kennedy outfit she rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2Fcrop-38769440.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>She was peeved over these PJs. <\/p>\n<p>The fashion consultant on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/28\/us-news\/love-story-production-designer-dishes-on-paparazzi-frenzy\/\">Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. &amp; Carolyn Bessette<\/a>,\u201d lost sleep over the original pajamas the character of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wore in the miniseries \u2014 a silk nightgown and robe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God, no way, she wouldn\u2019t do that.\u2019 I knew that because her friends had shared what she\u2019d worn personally,\u201d Sunita Kumar Nair told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was just never obvious about what she did and how she dressed, and I think that\u2019s a beautiful thing about her. She understood who she was as a woman and what suited her.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sunita Kumar Nair was asked to consult on the clothing the character of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, played by Sarah Pidgeon, wore in \u201cLove Story.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">FX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rudy Mance, the costume designer for the FX and Hulu miniseries, which airs its finale on March 26, was relieved that Nair weighed in \u2014 and changed the character\u2019s nighttime attire to a nightgown made of cotton with lace trimming.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cRudy was like, \u2018Thank God I checked that with you,&#8217;\u201d said Nair, a stylist and fashion editor who worked at Sunday Times Style, WWD and W magazine, and consulted for notable names like Est\u00e9e Lauder, Louis Vuitton, and Christian Louboutin.<\/p>\n<p>Nair was called to consult on the series because she literally wrote the book on Carolyn\u2019s style, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-aps-asc-tag=\"nypost-20\" data-aps-asin=\"1419767194\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.nypostlink.com?btn_ref=org-19984c113c692001&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.nypostlink.com?btn_ref=org-19984c113c692001&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCBK-Carolyn-Bessette-Kennedy-Fashion%2Fdp%2F1419767194%3Ftag%3Dnypost-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2026%2F03%2F14%2Fentertainment%2Flove-story-fashion-consultant-reveals-the-carolyn-bessette-kennedy-outfit-she-rejected%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion<\/a>,\u201d during COVID, after realizing that no one had yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it. There were plenty of negative ones done on her, but there were none that were celebrating the woman and looking beyond her being married to John Kennedy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>For the project, she interviewed everyone from Carolyn\u2019s former boss, Calvin Klein, to her classmates at Boston University \u2014 and shared one of her favorite ancedotes about the wife of America\u2019s Prince.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe taught her friend how to have her hair blow-dried by rolling it up in a pencil on the subway and taking the pencil out when she got to the stop,\u201d said Nair, a native of England.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Nair literally wrote the book on Carolyn\u2019s iconic fashion sense. <span class=\"credit\">Abrams Books<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When \u201cLove Story\u201d started production, a former colleague of Nair\u2019s reached out, suggesting its executive producer\u00a0Ryan Murphy needed to tap into her expertise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was like, \u2018I hear that Ryan is getting a bevy of consultants and he didn\u2019t need anyone but you. Has he gotten in touch?&#8217;\u201d Nair recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Well actually no, but he knows where I am.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was only after Murphy teased photos of the actress who plays Carolyn, Sarah Pidgeon, filming the show last summer, and was bashed online for not getting Bessette\u2019s clothes, Birkin bag, and hair color right, that Nair was brought on as an \u201cauthority on her fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>One of the most difficult items of clothing to procure was the jacket Carolyn wore during her infamous fight with JFK Jr. in Washington Square Park. <span class=\"credit\">Eric Liebowitz\/FX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fashion guru, who lives in London, flew to the NYC set and delighted in browsing the collection of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/07\/us-news\/owner-of-carolyn-bessette-kennedys-fave-nyc-vintage-shop-shares-all\/\">clothing that Mance\u2019s team painstakingly sourced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so exciting to be on the site and actually see those pieces and to be like, \u2018Oh my God, this is obviously not what Carolyn wore, but this is the replica of it,&#8217;\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the toughest items to procure was the black jacket Carolyn wore during the infamous Washington Square Park fight scene, between Carolyn and JFK Jr which was captured by paparazzi at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jacket that she wore, I know that Rudy or one of his crew went on Japanese Etsy to finally find it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Nair attended the \u201cLove Story\u201d premiere at Carnegie Hall, where Pidgeon shared a sweet story about her book.  <span class=\"credit\">Alexis Hurley; Georgia Mulvaney Thomerson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nair even got to attend the show\u2019s premiere at Carnegie Hall, where Pidgeon revealed that she used her book to help capture Carolyn\u2019s essence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe would actually read excerpts of \u2018CBK\u2019 to get into that kind of cool fashion girl energy,\u201d she said. \u201cWhich I think she captured really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was peeved over these PJs. The fashion consultant on \u201cLove Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. &amp; Carolyn Bessette,\u201d lost sleep over the original pajamas the character of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wore in the miniseries \u2014 a silk nightgown and robe. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God, no way, she wouldn\u2019t do that.\u2019 I knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2327983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[349692,23537,345954,21741,25404,355609,25850,340541,390307,316248,22205,345953,383140,350732],"class_list":["post-2327982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrity-fashion","tag-celebrity-style","tag-clothing","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-fashion-beauty","tag-hulu","tag-john-f-kennedy-jr","tag-kennedys","tag-ryan-murphy","tag-television","tag-vintage","tag-wardrobe","tag-womens-fashion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Love-Story-fashion-consultant-reveals-the-Carolyn-Bessette-Kennedy-outfit-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327984,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327982\/revisions\/2327984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}