From Lee Radziwill’s effortless style to a field of carnations...

Circa September 12, 1962, during a private fitting at Givenchy’s Paris atelier, Lee Radziwill made a decision that would quietly reshape American style: she rejected ornament entirely, asking instead for movement, simplicity, and clothes that felt “lived in,” a request noted in the designer’s correspondence as unusually modern for its time. Unlike headline-driven fashion moments, this choice never made newspapers, yet it echoed through decades of design philosophy, influencing the rise of unders