Elle France July 20, 2023 : Jane Birkin by David Bailey

[vogue28]

 

[Avonlea]

I am sure there were much more flattering photos of Jane. Don't get the choice

 

[tigerrouge]

I was hoping French Elle would pay tribute, although I wasn't expecting to see the issue published so quickly.

 

[kokobombon]

I like that they didn´t use those same old same old pics of a young Jane...

 

[phungnam96]

^ same here, she is beautiful at every age. What a woman.

 

[tigerrouge]

Looking at the digital copy, 138 pgs.

In the contents page, there are two cover credits for Laura Smet, shot by Gilles Bensimon - I wonder if these were the original intended cover shot(s) for this week? The editor's letter is about the passing of Milan Kundera.

The Jane section is around 46 pages long, a mix of reprints and articles. This is followed by the Laura Smet feature, she's at a stables. There's also a beauty edit with model Nikki McGuire, shot by Marie Schmidt.

 

[tigerrouge]

I imagine she will be on the front of countless publications, but she will also be on the cover of the August 2023 issue of French Vanity Fair (and one person commented: "Pourquoi avoir choisi une photo de plus de 30 ans?"

If Brigitte Bardot or Alain Delon is next, the French covers this summer will be a carpet of reprints.

 

[Deleted member 116957]

If Brigitte Bardot or Alain Delon is next, the French covers this summer will be a carpet of reprints.

Don't... you dare... I'm about 10 issues away from completing my collection of Elle France from 1968. If Bardot or Delon die before I can acquire the last ten, it'll be impossible.

 

[ezacessline]

I bought the issue and you can see it was quickly made because in the summary there are some features like one about Kendall jenner but they are missing.

 

[Lola701]

If Brigitte Bardot or Alain Delon is next, the French covers this summer will be a carpet of reprints.

I have a problem seeing all those publications going all « Young Jane » as she aged beautifully and was like an adorable person… But at the same time, her young is the memory of that France that a lot of people seems to miss…

‘One thing about Bardot and Delon is that nobody will want to see the more recent pictures of them. It’s maybe better to have a good memory of them…Of a time when they weren’t best friends with the LE PEN family and their ideas..

 

[Drusilla_]

I like that they didn´t use those same old same old pics of a young Jane...

same, I respect that this was a photograph taken when it looks like she was in her 40s or 50s and no longer the ingenue but a cool and accomplished artist in her own right.

Every other publication's cover will probably feature her in her (iconic) youth because that was how she was first immortalised and she was such a symbol of the era, one magazine in her home country choosing to remind us that her later life looked great too, is not a bad move.

 

[kokobombon]

^years ago, for the longest time, I used to think that she died young because all the pictures I´ve seen of her were of her youth

 

[Drusilla_]

^years ago, for the longest time, I used to think that she died young because all the pictures I´ve seen of her were of her youth

the eternal quandary of It Girls never being accepted as they age and become recognisably no longer girls.

But Jane didn't suffer that particular problem in France, anyway, appropriate that it's a French magazine doing this.