How Jackie Kennedy’s Favorite Irish Designer Paved the Way for a Generation Inline

  • Sybil Connolly
    Photographed by Henry Clarke, Vogue, March 15, 1962
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    Anne Gunning Nutting in Sybil Connolly

    Mrs. Anthony Nutting (formerly Anne Gunning) wearing dress by Sybil Connolly

  • Sybil Connolly
    Photographed by Cecil Beaton, Vogue, August 15, 1953
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    Lady Melissa Wyndham-Quin in Sybil Connelly

    Lady Melissa Wyndham-Quin, debutante, wearing pleated linen dress by Dublin designer Sybil Connolly

  • Sybil Connolly
    Illustration: Vogue, March 15, 1957
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    “The Three Lives of Linen”

  • Sybil Connolly
    Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, March 1, 1964
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    “Prettiest Dresses; Shirtwaist Charm, Wonderful Skirts”

  • Sybil Connolly
    Photo: Terry Fincher/Express/Getty Images
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    Sybil Connolly at work in Dublin

    12th April 1965: Irish fashion designer Sybil Connolly admires one of her dress designs on a young model at her Dublin fashion house. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Express/Getty Images)