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Some of Jackie O.’s Favorite Fabrics Are Back on the Market
In the late 1960s, D.D. and Leslie Tillett worked with designers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on some historically significant prints. Now the project is being reintroduced to a new generation.
Kathleen Tillett and her son, Patrick McBride, outside of their factory in Sheffield, Mass.Credit.Shana Sureck for The New York Times
By Jaci Conry
Published Dec. 28, 2020Updated Jan. 22, 2021
Update: Jan. 22, 2021. After this article’s initial publication, two sons of D.D. and Leslie Tillett, Seth Tillett and Dek Tillett, objected to some of the descriptions of their parents’ work and its legacy, and raised doubts about the history of the textiles being reissued. The article has been updated to include additional context supplied by them.