Though she served only a short time as First Lady — from January 1961 until the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, in November 1963 — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis remains deeply rooted in American culture.
A large part of this stems from her timeless style that made her one of the biggest fashion icons of the last century. Legendary Hollywood costume designer Edith Head called her the greatest single fashion influence in history. Almost thirty years after her death (May 19 marks the 29th anniversary of her death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 64),