Oleg Cassini famously crafted first lady Jacqueline Kennedy's White House image — now everything from their letters to sketches are up for auction.
Access to its gated entrance requires security clearance and the removal of a shiny chain and padlock. Much of the grass is overgrown, the shrubs could use some pruning, the swimming pool remains covered and the horse and dogs that used to roam there are long gone. Round-the-clock security detail use two golf carts to survey the property’s 43 acres and to ferry any visitors to the main house.
In late January, Nestor Cassini was released after being held for six months in a Nassau County jail for defying a judge’s order to turn over financial statements and business records, among other material. At that time, she described the incident as “an abuse of power” and alleged the judge breached her own served order. Nestor Cassini and her sister Peggy Nestor led Oleg Cassini Inc. during the designer’s lifetime and afterward. They did not respond to requests for comment.
John Barnosky, the attorney for the four children of Christina Cassini who are battling for half of the designer’s estate, did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday. Their mother, who died in 2015, was one of two daughters born to the designer’s first wife, Tierney. The alliance between the designer and Onassis is explained in detail in her letters to Cassini. She wrote, “Givenchy is where I have always gone — It would be SO easy if I could get everything from him, but I can’t & if Jack were elected I’d never expose myself to that charge…I don’t mean that I just want you to slavishly copy Givenchy for me — it’s just to give you a steer on the sort of thing I like…I know exactly what I want if I go to an Inauguration Ball that’s no problem.
There are also various references to her measurements — 35.5,” 26” and 38” — give or take half an inch and what is described as “Kennedy-era original fashion sketches.” Proof of just how involved Onassis was in crafting her White House persona were the fabric swatches, sketches , tear sheets of other designers’ fashion shots in magazines with Onassis’ handwritten suggestions and contact sheets with notes on paper from her. And the two were not just talking daytime dresses and evening gowns.
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