Jacqueline Kennedy: Fashion Icon

Fashion, in the early 1960s, was seen as a preoccupation of the wealthy. "Most Americans had a sort of knee-jerk reaction, fashion was elitist, decadent," said Valerie Steele , fashion historian and director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. "What she [Jacqueline Kennedy] did was give a totally positive spin to fashion." (Staff/AFP/Getty Images)