COMMENT & ANALYSIS: OBITUARY - Oleg Cassini.(Features)(Obituary)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: March 21, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Oleg Cassini Loiewski

EVEN in international playboy circles, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, who has died, aged 92, reveals a life that would sound far-fetched as a plot for the 1940s Hollywood films on which he worked.

Cassini was chosen by Joe Kennedy, family patriarch, and father of future president Jack, to create an image for Jackie Kennedy. As a former Hollywood mogul himself, Joe well understood the lustre the First Lady's wardrobe would attract ...

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