<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was well known as the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. and as a fashion icon.Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Image; Evan Agostini/Liaison/Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Before her death in a <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jfk-jr-carolyn-bessette-plane-crash-history-what-happened-2024-7">plane crash</a>, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was a well-known fashion icon.</li><li>As the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., she was frequently photographed at glamorous events.</li></ul><p>Arguably no one can nail classic, <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coach-cool-again-gen-z-is-spending-more-luxury-brand-2023-8">"cool-girl" style</a> quite like Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy did.</p><p>Bessette-Kennedy shot to prominence in the mid to late '90s as the girlfriend and then wife of prominent <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/most-prominent-members-of-youngest-kennedy-family-generation-2020-9">Kennedy family member</a> John F. Kennedy Jr., the only son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.</p><p>John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her older sister, Lauren Bessette, were killed in a plane crash 25 years ago on July 16, 1999. There were no survivors from the accident, which happened off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.</p><p>Before her passing, Bessette-Kennedy was known as a fashion icon, thanks to her minimalist outfits, which embodied what we now call the quiet-luxury aesthetic and featured a color palette of mostly black, white, beige, and navy.</p><p>Thomaï Serdari, the director of the fashion and luxury MBA program at NYU's Stern School of Business, previously told Business Insider that <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/quiet-luxury-explained-which-brands-will-benefit-2023-4">quiet luxury is defined</a> as "clothing of the highest quality, but also clothing that [is timeless], is sophisticated and understated" — that is, no gaudy prints or designer logos in sight.</p><p>Here are nine of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's best, most timeless looks.</p>