Brigitte Bardot-biggest style icon??

[ukgirl]

Have we lost the age of style icons, cos the likes of sienna miller and kate moss just copy the past ones?Does anyone know what Brigitte Bardot fashion trends set?Or do you just think the new ones on the scene made them?

 

[LeLuna]

fashion is rotating, dear.. old get new then get old again..
I don't really like Brigitte.. however.. but she was the sex bomb back to the 60s..

 

[sofia laetitia]

i saw et dieu crea la femme a few days ago, and my answer to this question is YES!

i think bb shaped much of the contemporary idea of female beauty in that movie, and i'm not just talking about her face and body, which however seem to be particularly in fashion at the moment (small and slim yet curvy, big eyes, big lips, and prominent cheeckbones).

i'm also thinking of the tan, the ballerina shoes, the long, wild, undone hair, the cropped trousers, the eyeliner, the tight waist, etc. etc.

and finally the idea of the wild, carefree, super-sexy and yet emotional and romantic woman who needs men that 'can put her in her place', and that of course won her the hate of the feminists.

 

[taperjeangirl]

If you take a look at the bardot thread you can see alot of Kate Moss in Brigitte Bardot although Kate manages to put her own twist on things.

 

[Whitelinen]

Fashion is about recycling these days.

But no, Bardot is not the biggest style icon. She is by far not the most legendary...she's just in at the moment.

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Biggest example of how to age ungracefully more like, surrounded by cats. I have always (even in the photos of her heydey) found something deeply unclassy and unchic about her. She is almost like a Brit in my perception, not like some of the great Frenchwomen that the movie industy has produced.

 

[Whitelinen]

^I can't believe this, finally I've found someone who thinks the same.

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Well WhiteLinen, I think that most people dont care either way about Bardot. Whenever I think of her, I think of over-baked skin, and pasty white lipstick. Not good. I think women like Marianne Faithful did the 60s look better.

 

[Whitelinen]

I've had a different experience; most people find her attractive and the epitome of French.

 

[iluvjeisa]

A lot of people I know have little regard for her because of her eccentricity. That is, of course, exactly why I like her - I think she's beautifully eccentric.

 

[brokenenglish]

Sienna you are always right on the money for me....
I couldn't agree more....
If I didn't know who BB was and saw a pic, I might guess she was a Playboy bunny or something.

Now, Catherine Deneuve.... that is a chic French woman to me.

 

[skinny_boho]

If we are talking about a French icon of chic then we are talking about Catherine Denevue.
If we are talking about a French icon of sex we're talking abous Brigitte Bardot, IMO.

 

[brokenenglish]

^ I believe that we are talking about BB being a style icon....
which for me she is not...
Even if I see her in an outfit Kate Moss copies to a T it still looks much better on Miss Moss, IMO.

 

[ultramarine]

A lot of people I know have little regard for her because of her eccentricity. That is, of course, exactly why I like her - I think she's beautifully eccentric.

I just can not believe that a person who set so many trends (I remember she got married in a gingham dress and then gingham became huge) and is so beautiful can be such a ... well ... Id like to put many words but I cant ... she´s a HUGE homophobe so its a big NO NO on my list.

 

[liaa]

I Say Yes