Françoise Hardy

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US Vogue January 1967

"the micro mini-skirt and françoise hardy"
photographer: william klein


source: vintagefashionmagazines.blogspot.com
 
OMG. I just love this woman. I love her music and Jacques Dutronc. She's the best...
 
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Hardy Know Her: When WWD Met Françoise Hardy

"The tall tall girl with long long hair and mini mini skirt." This is how WWD described Françoise Hardy upon meeting the French folk-pop chanteuse in October 1966. Then 22 years old, Hardy had already sold 13 million records since bursting onto the scene at age 18, but seemed — in appearance and in conversation — very much a little girl, and very disenchanted with the biz. (She stopped touring just two years later.)

"She is not ‘hardy’ but rather shy," WWD said of the singer and budding fashion plate-cum-icon. (Hardy was often photographed in Courrèges, Paco Rabanne and Yves Saint Laurent; Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo has cited one of Hardy’s early songs, “Tous les garçons et les filles,” as the inspiration for her collection’s name.) "Her answers are laconic. Have you already been to the States? ‘Yes.’ Where? ‘New York.’ Did you like it? ‘No.’ Why? Pouts, with a grumpy expression: ‘I had no time do anything else but work.’ What do you do when you’re not working? ‘Nothing….I don’t have time.’" And so on.

Hardy, who had established herself as a singer of yé-yé music, a style that emerged in early-Sixties Europe, was on the cusp of becoming a big-screen sensation — “Grand Prix,” the classic John Frankenheimer film (starring Yves Montand and James Garner), in which Hardy had a featured role, was about to premiere in the U.S. Aptly, WWD was trailing Hardy on a shopping trip, including to the house of Saint Laurent, to select some looks for upcoming promotional appearances, and for her impending Stateside blitz.

Chez Saint Laurent, Hardy decided on a black smoking (“It’s the first time that happened to me at a couture house…it’s wonderful,” exclaimed the singer upon learning the house had given her the piece), which she wore later that evening for a TV show. WWD then followed Hardy to the theater, where she was to tape her performance, noting the hordes of children awaiting her arrival: “Little girls and boys rush upon her, shouting, ‘Françoise! Françoise! An autograph! An autograph!’

“‘I have no pencil,’ she says quietly.

“The fans hold thousands of pencils, of notebooks, of small pieces of paper…the Idole gives some signatures.

“Do you like these demonstrations?” asked WWD. “‘Better than the contrary,’ is her answer.”
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Thanks for the pictures classicalbang!

In the post where she's listening to a record, her outfit reminds me of something Nicolas Ghesquière would design for Balenciaga... the structured jacket with leather panels worn with leather shorts.
 
^funny you say as she's been one of his constant muses since he began at balenciaga. it's undeniable that her spirit and style is all over his work throughout the years.
 
I have an interesting bit of 60's trivia here which includes her;

Long, long before MTV "invented" music videos in the very early 60's ... there used to be a jukebox type of contraption that showed short 3 minute 16MM color, musical films. The name of this thing was called "Scopitone" (pronounced Scope-eh-tone with the accent on the "tone".) and it was invented by the French. A couple of other companies copied them later ... Color Sonics, Cinebox/Colorama. Thanks to MTV and video in the 80's .... they are all now out of business.

A Scopitone: (source bedazzled.com)
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Francoise Hardy was one of the first artists to record for Scopitone.

It cost $0.25 to watch a film which lasted from about 2 to 3 minutes each, just enough for one song (all songs used to be that short). Each Scopitone was loaded with 36 different films. You would usually find these in bars and lounges ... and they came to the US, too.

There were hundreds of films produced for Scopitone and you still see them around today on YouTube. Most are French but when Scopitone came to the US, they made films in Hollywood too. (an aside ... on film was filmed at the pool at the Mondrian Hotel (SkyBar) on Sunset in West Hollywood before it became a hotel.)


Here's a list that I got from a Scoptone site: scopitonearchive.com/ ... of all the songs she did for them:
Françoise Hardy "Tous les Garçons et les Filles" ("All the Boys and Girls") (A-137)
Françoise Hardy "Comme Tant d'Autres" ("Like All the Others") (A-153)
Françoise Hardy "Saurai-Je?" ("Shall I Know?") (A-163)
Françoise Hardy "Point" (GE-731)


Here's a sample of one of her Scopitone films (in pretty poor condition) ....Tous les Garçons et les Filles:


 
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i can't see any of them, it says "direct link error":(
 
have you guys heard the new album yet? it is classic françoise...almost to the point where you feel you've been transported back :wub: definitely a favourite of mine this year. she proves yet again in light of so much influence how relevant she still is as an artist.

 
^I love this album so much! :wub: Pluie sans parapluie is my favourite one, so soft and dreamy.

Love all the shot of Françoise, too! So amazing.
 
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