Jane Birkin

[Glittery_Bug]

www.condenaststore.com

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marieclaire.co.uk

http://popieces.blogspot.com/2008/05/stylecom-notescannes_13.html

http://probablyawkward.typepad.com/that_was_probably_awkward/2007/10/explain-yoursel.html

 

[Aretha]

Thanks for these!

 

[HeatherAnne]

Lutz & Patmos Taps Jane Birkin as Guest Designer
By ROSEMARY FEITELBERG
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Lutz & Patmos has lined up Jane Birkin as its newest guest designer — quite a leap from the Amtrak conductor who last held that title.

The British actress and chanteuse has been on the brand’s wish list for some time, since she has been its unofficial muse. Tina Lutz, who designs the collection with Marcia Patmos, flew to Paris in May to hang out with Birkin in her Paris apartment and discuss design ideas. Dressed in Levi’s, a slouch cashmere sweater and Converse sneakers, the 61-year-old embodies the label’s low-key style. “She has this really relaxed, nonchalant style without being overtly sexy, which is very sexy,” Lutz said.

 

[prsgl]

Lovely♥

Just found two pictures of her shot by Lichfield in '69.
www.chrisbeetles.com

I love these photos! This is the first time I have seen these, and they are amazing. Her hair, expressions, pose, everything about her is just fabulous.

 

[scara]

jane ages so well. can anybody please post recent pictures of her?

 

[Glittery_Bug]

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[PollyM]

From kataweb.it

 

[Glittery_Bug]

http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/02/13/the-wild-child-grows-up.php

The wild child grows up

Still searching, Jane Birkin strikes out in new directions
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By James Scanlon
For The Prague Post
February 13th, 2008 issue
COURTESY PHOTO Haunted by the spirit of Serge Gainsbourg, Birkin keeps his memory alive while adding new sounds of her own. enlarge Jane Birkin When: Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8
Where: Divadlo Archa
Tickets: 500–700 Kč, available through Ticketpro and at the venue
Life must be tough, if not bemusing sometimes, when you’re considered to be the world’s first notorious heavy breather. But then, ’60s wild child Jane Birkin probably wouldn’t have it any other way.Following her raunchy duet Je t’aime … moi non plus with former lover Serge Gainsbourg, in which she simulated an orgasm that shocked everybody from her parents to the Vatican, it seemed her career would forever be cemented as a social pariah.These days, Birkin, 61, insists that the 1969 hit was never intended to shock. “I just wanted people to know that it was about sex,” she says with an air of innocence that fools nobody, not even herself.As an omnipresent darling of the Left Bank of Paris, Gainsbourg made dark, brooding music that had a big influence on people like Juliette Greco, Yves Montaud and Alain Chamfort. But he was also seen as an arrogant, self-obsessed misogynist who took endless delight in exploiting his women as mere media fodder. Birkin had already been married to John Barry, the man responsible for the James Bond theme, but it didn’t last very long. She fell for the feral charms of Gainsbourg on the set of Pierre Grimblat’s film Slogan in 1968, and decided to leave Blighty behind forever.Like glam to the slaughter, she was soon posing nude for men’s pleasure mags; in one famous shoot, she was chained naked to a radiator wearing nothing but suspenders. At odds with all conventional feminist theory, she says she would have done “absolutely anything” to keep her man. On one occasion she even threw herself into the River Seine, begging Gainsbourg to forgive her for throwing a custard pie in his face. But when asked if she has any regrets, she responds, “It was all great fun.”After eventually leaving Gainsbourg, Birkin found a third husband in film director Jacques Doillon. But again it was a doomed relationship, and the couple ended up splitting, with Doillon claiming he wasn’t able to exist in Gainsbourg’s shadow.Too many cigarettes and booze finally did in Gainsbourg in 1991, but Birkin feels happily haunted by his presence. She even believes Paris still carries the burden of not wanting to forget the Birkin-Gainsbourg partnership. “There’s never a day that goes past when you don’t hear the immortal intimacies of Je t’aime … moi non plus,” she says.Birkin lives alone these days with her canine friend Dora, a dog of reputedly huge proportions. But, to her enormous credit, in recent years she’s taken to exploring new avenues in her music, as well as supporting worthwhile causes such as Amnesty International.In March 2002 she recorded Arabesque, a live album in honor of her late husband at the Olympia Theater in Paris. Birkin added an exotic new twist to various Gainsbourg gems by using a quintet of Arabic musicians. It generated such positive response that she followed it up with an album of duets entitled Rendez-vous in 2004. Rock luminaries like Bryan Ferry, Etienne Daho, Feist, Brian Molko and Francoise Hardy were all more than keen to offer their services — after all, it was hip to be into Gainsbourg.Topping all that is her latest disc, Fictions, her first-ever album sung entirely in English. Like Rendez-vous, it was produced by Renaud Letang and Gonzales, with some splendid guitar work by Johnny Marr (ex-Smiths). Artists as varied as Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy), Beth Gibbons (Portishead), Rufus Wainwright and Kate Bush contributed the sort of songs that Birkin has been itching to sing for years.“The original idea behind doing the record was the idea of coming home,” she says. “I’ve been a displaced person for most of my life, and it’s a bit impertinent to try to find out if I’ll be received as just another singer. I needed to go and see. “It’s strange being part of other people’s lives. Sometimes you feel like you’re sailing without a compass. This record started out with a destination, but in the end it changed into an adventure that brought me back to where I am.”The adventure continues this weekend with her first-ever Prague concert. In the intimate surroundings of Archa, she’ll be accompanied by Christophe Cravero (piano/violin), Frederick Jacquemin (percussion) and Thomas Coeuriot (guitar). Gainsbourg is also likely to be there in spirit.

 

[Glittery_Bug]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jane-birkin-you-ask-the-questions-750738.html

Jane Birkin: You ask the questions

(Such as: so, how do you feel about being awarded an OBE? And who gets your vote as the sexiest man in Britain?)
Thursday, 25 April 2002


The actor Jane Birkin, 55, was born in London. She began acting while at school at the Kensington Academy and made her stage debut in Graham Greene's 1964 production of Carving a Statue. However, it was her role as a nude model in the 1966 film Blow-Up that first brought her to public attention.
The actor Jane Birkin, 55, was born in London. She began acting while at school at the Kensington Academy and made her stage debut in Graham Greene's 1964 production of Carving a Statue. However, it was her role as a nude model in the 1966 film Blow-Up that first brought her to public attention.
At 18, she married the composer John Barry. But by 1968 the marriage was over, and she went to France to appear in the film Slogan. On set, she met Serge Gainsbourg, then 40, whom she married later that year.
In 1969, she and Gainsbourg released "Je t'aime (moi non plus)". The song topped the British charts, despite being banned by the BBC. Since then, she has pursued a successful film career, working with many leading French directors.
In 1998, she broke her vow to perform only Gainsbourg's songs and has since recorded with Suede and Beck. Her first play, Oh Sorry, Were You Sleeping?, was a success in Paris and was adapted for Radio 4 in 1999. She received an OBE last week.
She has two daughters and a son, and lives in Paris.
The famous women of the Sixties seem to retain an air of youthfulness. How do you keep yours?
Christina Halworth, Kingston
Keep smiling – it takes 10 years off!
I studied French to university level but I never understood the following: "Je t'aime moi non plus" ["I love you me neither"] and "Je vais and je viens entre tes reins" ["I come and go between your kidneys"]. Please help!
Simone Summerley, Pontefract
"Je t'aime moi non plus" came from when Dali said, "Picasso is Spanish and so am I. Picabia is a genius and so am I. Picabia is Communist, moi non plus." It was a much more interesting and strange song than people who thought it meant "I love you, so do I" realised. Or perhaps Serge felt all things come to an end and people just say "I love you", "So do I" and don't mean it. It wasn't written for me, but for Bardot. Otherwise maybe I would be a little more upset.
As for "Je vais et je viens entre tes reins", if you look it up in the dictionary, reins also means the bottom of your back. It is not equivalent to the unfortunate English word "buttocks", which doesn't evoke anything very erotic. It's certainly not "between your legs". I think it was because Serge thought that area of the body was pretty.
I see you got an OBE this week. Congratulations! How does it feel to be recognised by your homeland at last?
Joseph Armitage, Worcester
I'm pleased for my mother, who's stuck up for me for the past 30 years, saying, "Jane really does do very good songs. Jane really does go off to very dangerous countries." I'm glad she has a bit more credibility now.
It was for services to Anglo-French relations and I owe it entirely to the British ambassador in France, Sir Michael Jay, who knew I was working for culture and hospitals in the European Parliament and working on getting culture into Sarajevo. I didn't know whether I should take it. I knew what the French had done for me but I didn't know what I'd done for the English. All I know is that I want to live up to it. If the British want me to rush off and do anything frightfully risky or brave, I'll go. If there's anything I can do, give me a call.
Kylie or Madonna?
Charlotte Hardman, Bangor
Kylie is sweet. Madonna has used excerpts of The Cement Garden, a film by my brother and daughter, and she respects Serge. I'm impressed by that.
Who's getting your vote for French President?
Barbara Pettitt, by e-mail
I voted for Jospin. I felt rotten about Le Pen getting so many votes. I think it was because people were so sure Chirac and Jospin would get through. I go out of my way to demonstrate against Le Pen when possible. I walked against him five years ago in Strasbourg when I had six hours between two concerts in Marseilles and Lyon.
What do you think of the Hermès "Birkin bag"? Do you own one? If so, what do you put in it?
Philip Bennett, Rye
I wish I had a percentage in it. I drew it. I have one now, of course. I use it all the time. I put in it exactly the same mess I put in the basket I had when I was 17.
I read that you once took books to Sarajevo in an armed convoy. Any plans to go to Afghanistan?
Steve Saxby, Yarmouth
I certainly went to Sarajevo. I went during the siege, otherwise an army convoy would not have been necessary. I regret not going to Afghanistan with Colonel Massoud, the charismatic leader of the Northern Alliance, who came to France to ask for help. He didn't get it. I saw him on 4 April last year at the Afghan embassy. He was killed four days before 11 September.
I'd rather go to Chechnya, or Ingushi, where most of the Chechen refugees are. I got some child refugees out. They were ballet dancers. They went all around France last month performing. I promised to go to Ingushi but the Russian government won't let me. But I expect I'll get there.
Why do you think the French like you more than the British?
Brian Burns, Worthing
People always like things that seem exotic. The French like foreign people in films and music. They loved Petula Clark, Charlotte Rampling, Romy Schneider, Claudia Cardinale. They like an accent. And they like being loved. If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you. Serge was loved in English pubs as soon as he started playing darts and the piano. People couldn't get over the fact that he'd rather be there than in a French nightclub.
What's the last film that made you cry?
Lydia Harvey, by e-mail
A Pedro Almodóvar film, Talk to Her. And any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
Yours was the first song to be banned in the UK. Is there anything you'd like to ban?
Francesca Crane, Peterborough
No. Otherwise it might get to No 1.
Who is Britain's sexiest man?
Yvonne Childs, Loughbourough
David Attenborough.I've never met him, but he's got that wonderful, breathy voice and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.
Jane Birkin encourages readers to visit www.kicksjoydarkness.co.uk. It contains lyrics written by her nephew, Anno Birkin, who died last year

 

[StellaMare]

I wish there were more pictures of Jane carrying her Birkin.. I love how she treats it like just any other bag rather than a Holy Grail. She owns the bag, not the other way around..

 

[jessi_k75]

So funny !!!
I used to work for Starface and i remember looking at those pics so much !!!

Jane at a film festival (pictured with her beloved dog ora) ,and with her 2 youngest daughters Lou & Charlotte.





source:starface

Here is the last one I saved of the Birkin Family :

 

[Les_Sucettes]

Been looking to every single page of this Thread it's just AMAZING! Thank you for everything.

Did not saw this cover, if it has already been posted sorry.

ttp://dear-nike.blogspot.com

 

[HeatherAnne]

^ I don't think its been posted, gorgeous, thanks!

 

[Glittery_Bug]

http://casualinconcern.blogspot.com/2008/05/photos-of-jane-birkin-family-by.html

 

[Zkunis]

Since Jane was and still is a fashion inspiration to so many people, I though it would be funny to post here where to get pieces of clothing similar to her outfits! Here are a couple:

1 - Denim shorts HERE
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2 - Black belt HERE
3 - Ballerina flats HERE
4 - Black oversized jersey blouse HERE


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1 - White top HERE
2 - Long salmon skirt HERE
3 - Brown belt HERE



Actually most of these pieces you can find in any average shops, well what can I say...Jane is a simple girl!
Anyway if you want the exact pieces I posted then you have the links

 

[Glittery_Bug]

Thanks, those are great!

http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/306347

Birkin's life her most enduring work of art TheStar.com - entertainment - Birkin's life her most enduring work of art
Set to play Toronto for the first time, '60s icon hesitant to take credit for her achievements

February 24, 2008
GREG QUILL
ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST
"I hope you're not disappointed," were the last words Jane Birkin said during a recent fractured phone call from Warsaw.
It's a strange way to end a conversation, particularly one engineered to promote her first Toronto concert – tomorrow night at the Music Hall. It's not as if Birkin, now 60, has suffered the indignities of poor reviews, or ever been held up to ridicule.
Au contraire. She has led a bulletproof life. The daughter of a British war hero/superspy and one of Noël Coward's most favoured actresses, she is connected to the Royal Family via a cousin's boudoir relationship with Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. Cast for her first stage role at age 16 by none other than the play's author, Graham Greene, after she had wandered in to the wrong audition and flubbed her lines, three years later she was hired by Italian movie auteur Michelangelo Antonioni to play a photographer's groupie in his groundbreaking 1966 essay on British pop excess, Blow-Up. For that role, she gained instant international celebrity as the first woman to exhibit pubic hair in a commercial film.
She has appeared in more than 70 films and dozens of live theatre productions, including French director Philippe Calvario's acclaimed revival of Electra in 2006, and recorded some 16 albums of often provocative and controversial music.
"Je. t'aime moi non plus," her 1969 collaboration with long-time lover, revered French chansonnier and composer, the late Serge Gainsbourg, was banned on half the world's radio stations and condemned by the Vatican for Birkin's orgasmic gasps, and remains both her most popular recording and her signature piece.
The famous Birkin Bag, designed by Hermès in the 1960s as a personalized carryall for one of the era's most sought-after media darlings and cross-cultural superstars, is a popular – and very expensive – fashion accessory to this day. She doesn't have one.
Birkin has given birth to three gifted children by three very famous fathers (Gainsbourg, British film score composer John Barry and French movie director Jacques Doillon), was awarded an Order of the British Empire and the French Ordre National du Mérite for her service to the dramatic arts, and wrote, produced and directed her own feature film, Boxes, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
She has championed humanitarian activities with Amnesty International in Bosnia, Rwanda and the Palestinian territories; immigrant welfare and AIDS issues in Europe and Africa; and the cause of Burma's pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Her life, she has said, is her most enduring work of art.
So this almost pathetic sign-off to a long-distance chat hampered by a poor connection, interruptions from a frantic tour manager trying to get his star to a dangerously late pre-concert sound check, and an insistent hotel worker determined to service her room, hung in the air like a sad ghost.
During the interview she seemed deferential, oddly reluctant to take credit for her noteworthy artistic achievements, and a little too eager to dismiss them as the by-products of her relationships with powerful and creative men.
"People know me because of Serge and Jacques and Phillippe," she said. "I owe my career to them, particularly to Serge. Whatever attention I get is a sort of knock-on effect. I've been very lucky, but I've also worked very hard."
Still, stage fright is a constant enemy."I get extremely sick just before a performance ... it's the fear of letting people down. Playing Electra was agony, knowing I'd have to look out at the faces in the audience."
Her current show is a sort of Birkin cabaret revue comprising a lot of Gainsbourg, a nod to his fans who cling to her as the last living link to their hero, she said. On his death in 1991, he willed her a sizeable proportion of royalties from his catalogue, an acknowledgement of her role as his muse, despite the fact that she had left him years earlier for Doillon.
The show also includes material from her recent album, Fictions, a recording of mostly Anglo songs written especially for her by Rufus Wainwright, Cali, and members of The Divine Comedy, as well as personal favourites by songwriters Tom Waits, Neil Young, Kate Bush and Beth Gibbons, among others.
To quell her demons, her crew came up with the idea of having her enter, singing, through the audience. "It works in smaller, more intimate venues," Birkin explained, her dialect a quirky blend of British theatre vowels and Parisian twang. "On a stage I feel as if I'm standing on a table."
One of the most intimately scrutinized stars of the 1960s Britpop boom and France's rich bohemian culture, Birkin said she has paid no price for her fabulous celebrity.
"A few turned against me when I left Serge, but I can't remember feeling that the attention I got was offensive or invasive. I didn't have gangs of paparazzi following me, exposing my every flaw, the way they do today with people like Britney Spears. I don't know how those young women cope with it.
"Then again, I'm very ordinary. At home in Paris I cross the road to the park in my pyjamas to walk my dogs. I do my own grocery shopping every afternoon. I don't live a star's life. I avoid flash places, though I'm perfectly comfortable at the tables of rich and famous people.
``For me the privileges of being well known are that I can pick up and go to Rwanda, or Kenya, or Gaza and Israel if I want, and work for the causes I've taken to my heart ... and to perform with my trio, provided we don't expect to make much money, in places I couldn't visit otherwise.
``I'm lucky I've had to slog it. When I was young, the word icon didn't exist ... you never heard it. I can't remember what those years were like, except that whatever I did, I was always freshly pleased."

 

[laboheme]

I wish there were more pictures of Jane carrying her Birkin.. I love how she treats it like just any other bag rather than a Holy Grail. She owns the bag, not the other way around..

I've read in a couple of articles that she doesn't use one anymore? I'm not sure if it's true?

I totally agree with you! It's incredibly strange to see what's essentially a tote bag babied, coddled and worshipped. I almost fell for the funny fanatic koolaid too until I came to my senses. My bag is gorgeous but I already have children.

...I can understand some of the behavior and ensembles w/some Kelly bags but the prissiness w/ Birkins has finally gotten to me. I'm also not wild about the mini versions as evening bags. Each to her own tho'.

My husband is a huge Gaisnbourg & J. Birkin fan so, the more I learn(ed) ~the weirder the mismatch, IMO, between J. Birkin and many of the Hermes Birkin fanatics. <shrug> I suppose everything evolves/shifts.

...Also interesting to read posts @ some boards "tsk tsking" the pics of Jane with it on the ground or that hilarious video of her breaking in a new one. ...the fun starts @ about 2:20


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joV926auuLI

YouTube video from: user noko555

 

[Aretha]

Zkunis, thanks so much for those collages! I love them and I love every outfit that she wore back in the days

 

[Emilee]

Jane Birkin poses in front of the Tower Eiffel before the Hermes Show, Paris (October 5)
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