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Hailey Bieber Revives Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's Open-Back Cerruti

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Hailey Bieber has brought back one of the most closely studied dresses in American bridal-week history: the open-back Cerruti that Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy chose for her wedding rehearsal dinner. Ask anyone who keeps an archive of these looks and they'll tell you the bare back is the whole point. A plain front opens into a low, clean line behind, and there's barely anything else going on, which is exactly why people still bring it up. Our readers keep their own mental lookbook of the Bessette-Kennedy years, so it's a pleasure to see the dress worn again rather than just pinned to a mood board, and there are worse audition tapes for whoever is casting the next Love Story.

With reporting from Harper's Bazaar.

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