Birkin Girl

Indescribable long skinny French musique, Long hair Brit Jane Birkin turned French at some point, and really knew how to enjoy it. It could be doing the Je t’aime…moi non plus moans and groans or just wearing a pair of lousy old jeans, but always ethereal, the flower Jane Birkin moves like, was always in a revolution, sexual, fashion, beauty revolution where the flat chested boyish girl would play and create,

Music, starting with Serge but ongoing with compositions of her own, was one of the talents of always young Jane. Ella Fitzgerald is a star, but the Birkin girl singing Love for Sale -sensually asking who’d like to sample my supplies- was unmistakably glowing harder; sexy innocence that became her trademark, androgynous type of girl that at some point became Hermès most wanted bag.

Traveling to Paris from London, Jane found herself dropping things out of her overflowing  Hermès organizer. The guy sitting next to her told her she should put things in the pockets.

-       “If Hermès put pockets in, I would.”

One month later, the guy, who was Hermès’s CEO Jean-Louis Laden, sent her a design and asked if he could name it after her. The two year waiting list bag and its useful pockets was approved by the muse, who was probably the only girl not having to wait to have it.

It is hard to talk about Jane Birkin, the complexity of her looks can led to a simplicity indescribable in its perfect design. As beuty itself, Birkin remains in shadows and the appreciation of both her looks and her personality can only be esthetic.

Before her appearance in Antonioni’s Blow Up, she just didn’t think of her part as a very big deal; the same while recording Je t’aime… Her reason for taking such parts, as most of her reasons or of her way of living, was men. “The truth is I did all those things to please the men I liked at the time. I always did what they wanted, as I was scared of losing them.” Blow up resulted of first husband John Barry “I was besotted with John,” she says. “I was offered a role in Blow Up and he said I wouldn’t have the courage to go naked, so I thought: ‘Well, I’ll do it and that will thrill him.’”

On Gainsbourg’s Je t’aime…moi non plus, the decision-making was the same “All these beautiful actresses were begging him to do it, so when he asked me I thought I’d better say yes, or he’d drop me.”

The unkempt hair and insecure complexity. Nowadays Birkin has become a Madam and has a broken heart due to it – “It broke my heart/Like a slap in the face” says a song inspired in what she feels on aging and getting all this having a bunch of years respect. She is not only older, but a mother of three, Charlotte, Lou and Kate, all involve in artistic careers and been as talented as their mother.

Yet, it is the 60s Jane I’d like to homage. At some point, in the middle of the revolution she was capable, with her skinny long body, to make the 68 may look smaller. Jane Birkin embraced the dreams, embraced innocence as it would never be seen again, in the centre of “perversion” After confessing  that he had been scared of BB’s breasts, Gainsbourg of 36 married the 19 year old Brit girl.

Jane moved like a flower, and was sensual, androgynous, complex ingénue and loving. Imagine a long skinny girl getting ready after a long bath. She softly massage herself with her stolen mom’s skin care, and she’s wondering around her room naked, till is time to go out and behave wild, but always coming back to her pink bedroom, to sleep among stuffed animals and men.