Jane Birkin

[Jacque Marcel]

I mean her daughters are cool and all but nothing beats the original...

Saw this on Madewell1937.com, guess who her style icon is obviously?



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Beauty Icon: Stylish Mother-Daughter Pairs

Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg
"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust," Jane Birkin has said. These days, all eyes are on Birkin's daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, whether they're in Balenciaga, Nina Ricci, or their skivvies.
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singer Jane Birkin (R) delivers a speech during a protest organized by French association Amnesty International on May 18, 2009 in Paris, to support Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi. San Suu Kyi went on trial amid tight security at a notorious prison facing up to five more years in detention on charges of harbouring a US man, John Yettaw, who swam to her home on May 3, 2009. (Photo credit should read Getty Images)

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British actress Lucy Gordon commits suicide in Paris apartment
21st May 2009

A young British actress has hanged herself in her Paris flat just two days before her 29th birthday.
The body of Lucy Gordon was found suspended from the ceiling of her mansion block apartment.
She was reportedly found by her boyfriend who had been asleep in bed when she killed herself.

Tragic: Young British actress Lucy Gordon, pictured here at the Spider-Man 3 premiere in 2007, was found dead in her Paris apartment
Witnesses described him running out of the flat, desperately screaming for help.
A shopkeeper accompanied him back inside but there was nothing anyone could do.
Police were called to the scene, in the rue des Petits Ecuries, on Paris's Right bank.
‘It was a horrific scene,’ said one officer . ‘The young woman had taken her own life in terrible circumstances.
'Her boyfriend discovered her body on Wednesday morning and we attended the scene at her flat.
'We confirmed her death and there were no indications it was anything other than suicide.
'We are not seeking anyone else.'
A friend of Miss Gordon claimed that she had been devastated by the suicide of a friend in Britain.
The shopkeeper who returned to the apartment with Miss Gordon's boyfriend told Gala magazine he had no reason to suspect she had any problems.
'She was an adorable young girl. She always seemed bright and happy,' he said.
'Only two days earlier we had been having a chat in the street and she seemed totally at ease with herself.'
Miss Gordon, who also worked as a model, had just played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in a biopic about the late French singer Serge Gainsbourg currently being previewed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Her English rose good looks and passion for France had seen her compared in real life to Miss Birkin, Gainsbourg’s muse.

On the rise: Jane, pictured here in January 2008, has been described as a 'star in the making'

A festival organiser said: 'We are devastated by this news. All those attending the festival had been hugely impressed by Lucy's work. She was a star in the making.'
In all Miss Gordon, who was born in Oxford had appeared in about a dozen films, having made her screen debut in 2001.
Interviewed in January last year, she said her career was progressing "slowly but surely".
Miss Gordon also had a starring role in a new French comedy Cineman, due out later this year, and a larger part in the romantic comedy The Russian Dolls in which she co-starred with Audrey Tautou. She was also in ‘Perfume’ in 2001.
She had recently moved to Paris from New York , and appeared to have everything to live for.
Miss Gordon’s agents in London and New York confirmed she had ‘ended her own days’.
Her mother was out of the UK on holiday and is due to fly back today. Her sister Katie was today too upset to comment.

Promising role: Miss Gordon, pictured left, played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in a biopic about the late French singer Serge Gainsbourg currently being previewed at the Cannes Film Festival
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[La bordélique]

^ Oh my, that is so sad!

[atooomic]

oh my god, she was so young! what a terrible new

[Romanee]

OMG I love Jane Birkin, I watched this really interesting programme late one night on BBC4 I think it was, it was sort of a bio of her life, I'd never heard of her before I watched that programme, but after I became Birkin obsessed! I mean seriously anyone who gets a hermes bag named after them, and not just any bag but the elusive Birkin bag, the IT bag, that I can only dream of owning, well that's the ultimate kudos isn't it.

[Glittery_Bug]

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle6311757.ece

Actress, musician, muse and campaigner Jane Birkin, 62, was born in London, but moved to Paris in 1968, where she has lived ever since.
My mother
I would have achieved nothing without my mother’s support. She was a great actress called Judy Campbell and she defended me against my darling father who wanted me to be an art student, because he was scared I’d become a big-headed film star, move away and never come home. She knew I wanted to be in movies, so she took me to an audition, teaching me the words beforehand in Battersea Park, well out of my father’s earshot.
My brother and sister
When I was younger, I tried my hardest to be a boy – I wanted to be like my older brother, Andrew, the leader of our adventures who had all the good ideas. I was his lieutenant and my little sister begrudgingly trailed behind us. The fun all three of us had was unforgettable and prompted my last record, The Winter Children.
My mentor, lover and friend
For the past ten years I’ve been alone and my great comfort has been to sing concerts and meet people around the world. That has certainly been because of Je t’aime…moi non plus and Serge Gainsbourg. He gave me my voice. Nobody recognised I had any talent until I sang his words, and I sang no one else’s while he was alive – he told me I shouldn’t and I didn’t. He was unique, funny and a gifted poet and musician.
My daughters
All three live in Paris with their families and are happy individuals. They get on so well with each other, although they’re half-sisters, and that’s my greatest pleasure. I’m just glad I’m still included in the laughs and the filthy talk.
My best friend
When my father and Serge died within three days of each other, Gabrielle Crawford, my oldest friend, was the one who helped me through by holding everything together. She was indispensable and always has been – she was there when my mother died, too.
My hero
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader of Burma’s National League of Democracy, is a remarkable woman. I met her 13 years ago and promised to help her, but I no longer know how. I called the French Foreign Secretary only today, imploring him to help, and I’ve organised campaigns, but it has come to nothing – she’s still detained by the military junta. It makes me want to scream.
Jane Birkin will be in conversation with Philippe Sands and in concert at the Hay Festival on May 23 (www.hayfestival.com)

[atooomic]

nice interview, thanks for posting it

[Ice_lady]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJOMVC_91_s

[Ice_lady]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIwU2...eature=related

[Glittery_Bug]

Congratulations to Charlotte Gainsbourg on winning the Best Actress prize at Cannes!

Jane was at the Hay Literary Festival this weekend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009...n-hay-festival

Singer and actor Jane Birkin – gamine, frisky and voluble – sashayed into the Guardian Hay festival at the weekend, where she tossed out anecdotes about her career, love life and experiences recording the immortal Serge Gainsbourg classic, Je t'aime … moi non plus.In the nicest possible way, her talk was a shower of dropped names, starting with "My ma knew Binky Beaumont," and ending with, "And I said to Brigitte Bardot: 'Do you mind awfully entwining your legs with mine?'"
At her first ever stage audition she was unsuccessful in that she went to the wrong theatre and thought she was trying out for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but was successful in that she got the part of "a deaf and dumb girl" in a play with Sir Ralph Richardson.
Graham Greene said she was "the perfect symbol of innocence". She married composer John Barry at 17. But it was not, in the end, a success.
"I had never known anyone before I was married to him, and I didn't know what to do – I was a complete washout in that department. Other girls could knock it off better than I could."
Then she met Gainsbourg. Their first date started with his asking a nightclub band to play Sibelius's Valse Triste for her – he stuffed their violins with 100 franc notes.
It ended in the meat market in Paris, with his buying champagne for the butchers. He then passed out in the Hilton Hotel.
"It was a divine beginning and it went on becoming more romantic," said Birkin. "He took more attention than you can imagine to make sure you were sexually OK, with tiny wee cushions everywhere so one was comfortable. I never knew anyone who gave one such tiny, exquisite attentions.
"It was like having a wonderful parrot who bites everyone else but you. Everyone said: 'Oh Serge, he's so dangerous.' I said : 'Oh yes, he is,' but really, he was a pushover – very sentimental, very romantic."
The Guardian Hay festival this year has been basking in heat – a novel experience for those who recall last year's floods and storms.
As a result, the festival is breaking records, according to director Peter Florence, with more visitors in its opening weekend than the whole of the 2008 festival, and ticket sales up 13% against expectations.
Highlights so far have included astronomer royal Martin Rees, historians Eric Hobsbawm and Niall Ferguson discussing the aftermath of the Versailles Treaty, and Lincoln's distinguished biographer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, on the parallels between US president Barack Obama and his predecessor George W Bush.


http://uk.reuters.com/article/domest...54M1PA20090523

JANE BIRKIN PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR SUU KYI



HAY-ON-WYE, Wales (Reuters) - Actress and singer Jane Birkin pledged on Saturday her support for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing trial for allowing an uninvited guest into her home.
Birkin , who met Suu Kyi in Myanmar in 1999, said she had written a song about the Nobel laureate, who faces up to five years in jail if found guilty of breaking the terms of her house arrest.
"I haven't stopped singing it and won't until things change in Burma (Myanmar,)" she told an audience at the Hay Festival.
Suu Kyi on Friday pleaded not guilty after a prison court formally charged her. Birkin, has supported a campaign of disinvestment in Myanmar and has taken her plea to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The 62-year old actress, who achieved fame in 1969 for her duet "Je t'aime, moi non plus" with her late partner Serge Gainsbourg, performed songs from a new album as part of the Hay Festival programme.


There's also a brief mention of Jane here but it basically repeats what was said in the first Guardian report, contrasting her favourably to the likes of Abi Titmuss...

[Ice_lady]

Thanks for the information, Glittery Bug!

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[chlauraform]

Love the picture you posted, mrsjamesdean.