"Fashion should be what it is in France—very good material and completely individually worn." So says the eccentric star of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale—the reclusive first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who approached fashion without any sense of fear or self-consciousness.... She dressed for herself, whether that meant wearing a skirt as a cape, or pinning a cardigan on top of her head as a makeshift turban.





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