#Brigitte Bardot Foundation

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RIP ALAIN DELON

Alain Delon passed away the 18th August 2024, this year lots of great stars are leaving us...

Alain Delon was a great actor and worked with Tina in "Texas Across the River" in 1966 and in "Mr. Klein" ten years later, and by looking at these photos (second photo from Jean-Pierre Aumont's funeral back in 2001) it seems that they remained friends since they met back in the 60s.

It seems Alain Delon was a dog lover, he had many dogs during his life and he had them buried at his garden in a chapel. However, in 2010 he adopted Loubo, a Belgian Malinois from a shelter and stated that: “He’s my end of life dog … I love him like a child. I’ve had 50 dogs in my life, but I have a special relationship with this one. He misses me when I’m not there.” and he added: “If I die before him, I’ll ask the vet to take us away together. He’ll put him to sleep in my arms. I’d rather do that than know that he’ll let himself die on my grave with so much suffering.” His family, through Brigitte Bardot Foundation, say that they will keep the dog's alive and will take care of him.

Lots of people admire Alain Delon a lot, and I think he was a great actor, but he did a very wrong thing when he was young, he had a relationship with German model Nico and had a son, his first son, Christian Aaron "Ari" Päffgen (was called at birth), Nico went to justice to make Alain Delon recognise his own son, but he never did, however, as Nico lifestyle was not suitable for a young boy, Delon's mother and her second husband adopted the kid and took care of him, changing his legal surname in Boulogne. When this happened, Alain Delon never spoke to his mother and step-father again.

In the years 2001 and 2019 Ari attempted to sue Alain Delon for legal recognition of paternity but without success.

In the late 60s, Tina and Nico became friends and at some point in the 70s they shared a flat, I bet in 1966 when Tina worked with Alain Delon didn't know a thing about his young little boy.

Well, Alain Delon's son Ari, left us the 20th May 2023 aged 60, and I would like to believe that now they are together again and I would like to think that in the afterlife Alain Delon has recognised his son and they are at peace... that's my wish...

Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing these photos.

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Quand on a renoncé à tous les plaisirs de la vie, il reste encore celui de se lever de table après un dîner ennuyeux.

- Paul Claudel

The Hôtel Lambert, on Paris’s Île Saint-Louis, has long been the city’s most glamorous townhouse, welcoming guests from Balzac to Brigitte Bardot. Its inhabitants, such as the notorious Baron de Redé, used its 17th Century Baroque interiors as the backdrop for mythical parties.

The country home, originally built in the 1640s by the French financier Jean-Baptiste Lambert and his family, had been taken over in the intervening centuries by other aristocrats, including the Marquise du Châtelet who lived there with her lover, the author Voltaire, and the exiled Polish Prince Czartoryski. In its heyday, it had hosted cultural luminaries like Coco Chanel, Delacroix, Chopin and Balzac in its gilded salons, although it had fallen into disuse by the early 20th century.

Guy and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, members of the French banking dynasty, bought the hotel in 1975 and restored it to its former glory. In 2007, Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani picked up the keys to the house, for a reported $90 million, and further restored it, filling it with period furniture and decorations, to the tune of around $147 million.

More recently, the property was sold to French telecom billionaire and art collector, Xavier Niel, in February 2020, for a reported $226 million. He plans to turn the building into the headquarters for his private cultural foundation.

Over time, it became the home of a stunning assemblage of historic objects, from Louis XIV’s carpets to Marie-Antoinette’s carpets, which were auctioned off in a once-in-a-century sale in Paris in October 2022. Like its visitors, each piece of gilt or porcelain has its own special history.

Following a week of auctions in Oct 2022, the final hammer came down on the extraordinary collection offered from Paris’ most beautiful private residence. Over the course of six volumes and over 1,000 lots, the sales together brought around €76.6 million - marking a world record for a sale of French Decorative Arts, and for a ‘House Sale’ staged at Sotheby’s.

International collectors and French institutions came forth in large numbers to compete for pieces from a unique collection that combined the most precious examples of the decorative arts paired with an innate sense of harmony and beauty.

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Day of the Seal

Seals are a vital part of the Massachusetts ecosystem

International Day of the Seal is observed on March 22 every year. The day is set aside to raise awareness about seal conservation’s importance and honor these fascinating sea mammals. The day was first celebrated in 1982 and was established by the Canadian organization the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. Diving with Seals in Massachusetts Seals are found in oceans worldwide, from the Arctic to the…

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Susi Newborn — one of the most skilled and effective activists in Greenpeace’s 52-year history — passed away on the last day of December 2023. She is remembered fondly by her beloved children, Brenna, Woody, and Naawie; her granddaughter Toody; by her ex-husbands, Martini Gotje and Luc Tutugoro; and by friends, colleagues, and shipmates around the world. 

In 1977, when Susi arrived in Canada for her first Greenpeace action, to protect infant harp seal pups in Newfoundland, she was already something of a legend. Journalistic tradition would have me refer to her as “Newborn,” a name that rang with significance, but I can only think of her as Susi, the tough, smart activist from London. 

Susi was born in London in 1950, from Argentine parents. Her mother had grown up among the Buenos Aires elite and knew famous artists such as Raul Soldi and Mexican muralist Don Sequeiros. Susi’s godmother was a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the UK, and a colleague of Bertrand Russell. Susi grew up meeting writers, philosophers, and artists. 

Susi’s father was an Argentine Embassy diplomat, whom she described as “a deeply spiritual man.” He told her about meeting Mahatma Gandhi and urged her to “work for peace.” At the age of five, she stopped her father from chopping down a tree near their London home, her first ecology action, and in 1970, at the age of 20, she attended the world’s first Earth Day protest in London’s Trafalgar Square.

Argentina at the time suffered under a series of military dictators, and Susi’s father quietly opposed the Junta headed by General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse. When her father died, the tragedy radicalised her and she embarked “on a personal journey of activism.”

Hosting the film star

Susi worked for Friends of the Earth in London for two years, and in the summer of 1975 she attended the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in London, where she met Greenpeace members Paul and Linda Spong. Greenpeace Foundation in Canada had spent two years planning our first global ecology action, after protesting US and French nuclear weapons tests for four years. We were tracking Russian whalers off the coast of California in a fishing boat, and our campaign depended on confronting the whalers during this London IWC meeting. 

Paul and Linda Spong informed Susi about the planned confrontation, and she helped organise London ecologists and media for the coming drama. In June, two days before the IWC meeting would close, we located and blockaded the whalers. The next day, we announced the confrontation by marine radio; and Susi, Paul, Linda, Greenpeace filmmaker Michael Chechik, and a team of activists stormed the IWC meeting with the news. 

In 1976, Susi met Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter in London. Hunter returned to Vancouver with tales of “the amazing Susi Newborn” in London. He called her “a hard-core, grassroots ecologist who could help lead the next generation of Greenpeace actions in Europe.” Six months later, she arrived in Canada to participate in a campaign to halt the slaughter of infant seals on the Labrador ice floes. Susi told me that the direct action tactics and Earthy spiritual style of Greenpeace appealed to her. 

In May 1977, Susi pitched her tent on icy Belle Isle, 32 kilometres off the coast of Labrador, surrounded by ice floes, awaiting the arrival of the Norwegian sealing ships. Susi and David “Walrus” Garrick explored frozen caves and wrote a “Declaration of Freelandsea,” a free-spirited manifesto of ecology.

Three days after Susi and the Greenpeace team pitched camp on the ice, French actress Brigitte Bardot arrived to help bring attention to the Norwegian infant seal slaughter. Bardot wrote in her account that she had been “terrified” flying through a storm in the helicopter, and she arrived at the camp stifling tears and clutching her frozen fingers under her arms. Susi made her a cup of hot chocolate, warmed her in the tent, and explained practical tips such as how a woman could pee at night on frozen Belle Isle. “They give me courage,” Bardot wrote in her journal. 

Rainbow Warrior

Back in London, Susi next wanted to disrupt Icelandic whaling. She recruited Denise Bell from Friends of the Earth and set out to find a boat to confront the whalers in the North Atlantic. I sent her a file of photographs from the nuclear, whale, and seal campaigns. Like us in Canada, Susi had no money. She started fundraising, using Michael Chechik’s documentary film of the first two whale voyages, which was aired on the BBC with an introduction by British naturalist David Attenborough.  Susi and Denise met Charles Hutchinson from London and Allan Thornton from Canada, and the group opened the first Greenpeace office in the UK at 47 Whitehall Street. Simultaneously, French activist Rémi Parmentier and Canadian David McTaggart opened another office in Paris, where they were protesting French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.

Susi and Denise Bell scoured maritime journals, looking for ships for sale. On the Isle of Dogs, in the Thames Docklands, they found a rusting, diesel-electric, 134-foot trawler that had been converted to a research ship by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food. The Sir William Hardy was available to the highest bidder. Charles Hutchinson introduced them to the manager at Lloyds of Pall Mall bank. They received a bank loan, secured by the life insurance policies of Hutchinson and Bell. The Department of Trade accepted their bid of £42,725, and they put down a 10 percent deposit, £4,272, on the ship. This was the first ship that Greenpeace actually owned, and Susi sent us photographs of the sad looking trawler that within a decade would become one of the most famous ships of the 20th century. 

Newborn, Bell, and an army of volunteers cleaned the ship, stem to stern. Susi recruited her childhood friend Athel von Koettlitz and Australian boyfriend Chris Robinson to tackle the restoration. They clambered down into the pitch-black engine room with a flashlight. The hovel was a rust bucket, and the 800-horsepower engine had not been fired in years. They wiped moisture off gauge glass, tightened loose fittings, and got the two-stroke diesel engine running. Susi and the team removed trawling gear, scraped off rust, painted the ship, and shopped for second-hand parts.

In the fall of 1977, they negotiated with the Ministry to reduce the final price of the Sir William Hardy to £32,500, about £182,000 today. To raise this money, they toured Europe with the documentary, The Voyage to Save the Whales. In the Netherlands, the World Wildlife Fund financed a fundraising campaign. Bob and Bobbi Hunter departed for Amsterdam to accept the money for Greenpeace. On the way, they stopped in London to see the new ship, and there Bob Hunter gave Susi a copy of Warriors of the Rainbow, a book that had inspired Greenpeace in Canada, with a prophecy about how all the people of world — people of the rainbow — would come together to save the Earth from ruin. The crew later agreed to rename the ship Rainbow Warrior. The crew added rainbows to the ship’s deep green hull, a white dove copied from the book cover, and painted Rainbow Warrior at the bow, the vessel’s glorious new name.

Whales and nuclear waste

Susi saw Greenpeace as an integration of ecology, the Gandhian satyagraha she had learned from her father, Quaker direct action, and a deep respect for Indigenous Earth-informed spirituality. She was naturally inclusive and realised that the hard-edged punks of London appreciated ecology as much as the hippies, peace activists, and affluent conservationists. She recruited nuclear campaigner Peter Wilkinson, who had grown up around the South London docks, and had good relations with the dockworker unions, whom he convinced to “turn a blind eye” to the non-union Greenpeace team working on the ship. Susi built alliances with everyone. “Our gut reactions to injustice are the same,” she told her colleagues. 

By January 1978, the Rainbow Warrior was ready for its first ecological campaign, and on 2 May, they slipped down the Thames and into the North Sea. The seasoned crew included skipper Nick Hill; chief mate Jon Castle; Peter Bouquet, a mate off a tanker; cameraman Tony Mariner; and Von Koettlitz assisting Chief engineer Simon Hollander. Devonshire nurse Sally Austin served as medic, Hilari Anderson from New Zealand as cook. Bob Hunter and Fred Easton joined the crew from the Greenpeace Foundation in Canada. Remi Parmentier and David McTaggart joined from the Paris office; and Bell, Hutchinson, Thornton and Susi Newborn form the UK core of the crew. Others came from Holland, Scotland, South Africa, Switzerland, and Australia. 

Crowds welcomed the ecologists in Calais, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Aarhus, Denmark, where Susi and the crew showed films from earlier Greenpeace missions. Greenpeace organisations emerged in some of these cities. Susi understood that to spread the ideas of peace and ecology we needed to not only take action, but also build the movement itself.

The Rainbow Warrior crew confronted Icelandic whalers, then put into Reykjavik to release film to the media. Pete Wilkinson joined the crew in the UK and told Susi he had found evidence that the European nuclear industry was dumping radioactive waste into the Bay of Biscay, off Spain. The crew decided to expose the toxic dumping scheme, and pushed south. They would soon blow the lid off one of Britain’s nastiest secrets.

At Falmouth Bay, Susi and Denise Bell returned to London to issue media releases and handle inquiries. Easton and Mariner travelled north to Sharpness, where the nuclear dumping ship Gem sat in port, loading large drums labelled: RADIOACTIVE WASTE. 

Later, off the coast of Spain, the Rainbow Warrior interrupted the dumping. A 600-pound drum dropped from the Gem and flipped a Zodiac, throwing Gijs Thieme into the water, as the film crew captured the event. Later, in London, Susi and the European media teams released the film and photographs and organised a debate with nuclear industry representatives on the BBC. The activists revealed that each year, approximately 80 kilograms of plutonium-239 had been dropped into the Atlantic trench. In a few weeks, the Rainbow Warrior team had opened a new era of scrutiny for the entire European nuclear industry.

Greenpeace International

For the summer of 1979, Susi and the London activists organised new confrontations with the Icelandic whalers and the nuclear garbage scow Gem. Susi, the alliance builder, offered the Rainbow Warrior to Amnesty International, CND, Greenpeace New Zealand, and to other activists for campaigns. When crews returned from campaigns, Susi later told the New Zealand Dominion Post, “it’s like they’ve been to a war zone. You feel like you’ve gone to some bloody killing field somewhere.” In 2015, she recalled, “I still have injuries from those experiences.” 

As Greenpeace became more famous, power struggles naturally arose, and in 1979, Susi fled London to get away from the conflicts. She retreated to the Greek island of Samos, but didn’t rest for long. In Ayios Konstantinos, she heard from fishermen about an annual massacre of Aegean monk seals in the Mediterranean. In her typical fashion, Susi organised “Greenpeace Aegean Sea,” recruited young environmentalist William Johnson, launched a monk seal crusade, and made an alliance with Dr. Keith Ronald from Guelph University in Canada, who brought in the World Wildlife Fund. The ad hoc group successfully ended the marine mammal massacre. 

I next met Susi in November 1979, when we gathered in Amsterdam to create an International Greenpeace Council to coordinate the fast-growing organisation. Susi arrived on the Rainbow Warrior with Jon Castle, Tony Mariner, Athel von Koettlitz, Pete Wilkinson, and others from Europe. The council included representatives from Canada, UK, US, France, Denmark, and the Netherlands. New Zealand, Denmark, Australia and Germany joined soon thereafter, and Greenpeace now operates in 55 countries.

Susi was a fearless activist, more interested in the ecological vision of Greenpeace than in organisational manoeuvring or who would have power. During the week in Amsterdam, I met with her frequently, and the talk was always about our next actions and what we might achieve with Greenpeace tactics. Susi was the real deal, an activist to admire and emulate.

Kia ora

Susi moved to the US and received a degree in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic in Maine. In 1985, in New Zealand, during a campaign to stop French nuclear tests at Moruroa Atoll in the South Pacific, the French Secret Service bombed the ship Susi had loved and laboured over. The bombing broke her heart. “Not in a month of Sundays,” she said, “would I ever have expected a major European country to blow up a peace boat.” 

In 1986, she moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa), where she stayed active in ecology and justice campaigns. In 2003, her Rainbow Warrior memoir A Bonfire in My Mouth was published by HarperCollins. 

In New Zealand, in the 1990s, Susi served on the Board of Greenpeace New Zealand. She worked for Oxfam as their climate campaigner, for the NZ Refugee Council, and for the film union. Susi was a poet and a grand storyteller. She loved to talk about her days with Greenpeace and the importance of nonviolent direct action in changing our world for the better.

In the late 1990s, she moved to Waiheke and remained active in campaigns from protecting sensitive ecological regions to supporting Palestinian civil rights. In 2014, Susi helped create a Climate Voter initiative, encouraging New Zealanders to use their vote to make change. The following year, she joined her friend, Greenpeace Aotearoa executive director Bunny McDiarmid, in a march to stop deep sea oil drilling in the region. 

In 2022, Susi began treatment for breast cancer. “I know there is something in the world that is creating a giant cancerous tumour,” she said at the time, “that is tearing us apart, commodifying the air we breathe and the water we drink. I also know that this tumour is interspersed with flowers and song birds and the salty waters of the tears we shed.”

Susi Newborn passed away on 31 December 2023, at the age of 73. The Maori community of Waiheke hosted a memorial for her at Piritahi Marae on Waiheke Island, on the tribal lands of the Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Paoa Māori people. Piritahi means, fittingly, “coming together as one.” The community gave her a tangi, a Māori farewell. Friends who worked and sailed and battled with Susi over 50 years, attended and offered fond memories. 

“Susi, had a strong sense of injustice,” said McDiarmid, “and never gave up hope it was possible to make change in the world. She believed in the strength of people to make change. She was also really funny, clever and incredibly good company.” 

“Susi was brave and fearless,” said her friend Bianca Ranson, “but that was balanced with her kindness and her generosity. Susi showed us how to be fearless and brave and calculating. She taught us how to keep ourselves safe while pushing the line as hard as we could. What she was doing decades ago, if only people had taken that seriously then we’d be in a very different situation now.  She was a pillar, a pou, of the island community. What are we supposed to do without her?” 

“What I loved in the early Greenpeace years was the feeling that anything could happen anytime, anywhere,” wrote Rainbow Warrior photographer Pierre Gleizes Nicéphore. “On board, life was never dull, and Susi was part of that story from day one.”

“Susi and I have been the best of mates since we met in 77,” said former Rainbow Warrior cook, Hilari Anderson. She called Susi “a feisty sister Warrior.”

I corresponded with Susi and spoke with her by phone many times while she was in New Zealand. She always signed off with “Kia Ora,” a Māori greeting of wellbeing that means “have life.” 

Indeed. Kia Ora, dear Susi. 

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France opposes extradition of anti-whaling activist Watson to Japan

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said it is pressuring Danish authorities not to extradite arrested anti-whaling activist Paul Watson to Japan, according to France 24.

Watson, the 73-year-old American-Canadian founder of activist group Sea Shepherd, had been living in France for the past year. Macron is “following the situation closely” and “intervening with the Danish authorities”, his office at the Elysee Palace said.

Watson was arrested in Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, on Sunday on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. He will remain in custody until 15 August, while Denmark’s justice ministry must decide whether to extradite him.

In France, an online petition to Macron calling for Watson’s release has garnered 388,000 signatures. Green Party lawmakers have also put pressure on Macron, with 89-year-old film legend Brigitte Bardot saying on Monday:

We must do everything to save Paul.

Watson’s ship docked in Greenland’s capital Nuuk on Sunday to refuel and he was arrested on board. The ship was on its way to “intercept” a Japanese vessel to hunt and process whales in the North Pacific, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation said in a statement.

Japan is one of the last three countries in the world to allow commercial whaling, along with Iceland and Norway. Watson’s foundation said it has been the subject of an Interpol red notice due to events during a collision with a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic dating back to 2010, including property damage and injuries. Francois Zimeray, one of Watson’s lawyers, stated:

The Japanese arrest warrant is illegal. It violates all international human rights treaties.

Read more HERE

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Difundir la palabra

Según el Sun de Vancouver, la organización contaba ahora con 8.000 «miembros activos». 13 ramas «muy activas» distribuidas por todo el mundo y 28 «de las que se oía hablar de vez en cuando». Casi todas estas ramas no eran sino avanzadillas temporales que pronto se desvanecen, pero la semilla de Greenpeace se propagaba con rapidez.

Al año siguiente, 1977, la campaña a favor de las focas se internacionalizó, y participaron

en ella gentes de Noruega, Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y Canadá. Para los medios, el punto álgido era la aparición en el hielo de la actriz francesa Brigitte Bardot, a la que acompañaban desde Europa no menos de 45 periodistas de Dinamarca, Noruega, el Reino Unido, Alemania y Suiza.

Mientras la Bardot concentraba la atención de los medios, los activistas de Greenpeace se esforzaban una vez más por detener a los cazadores noruegos. Paul Watson cruzó a la carrera la inestable superficie de hielo que se movía bajo sus pies y se desposó a un cable utilizado para subir una bala de pieles a bordo del barco. Lo arrastraron por el hielo y lo sumergieron varias veces seguidas en el agua hasta casi ahogarlo.

«Era como estar en el circo romano», dijo Watson. «No paraban de gritar ‘¡ahoga a ese bastardo!’, y por fin me subieron a bordo y me dejaron boca abajo sobre el bulto de pieles, de modo que me empapé por completo de sangre».

Mientras Watson iba camino del hospital, ya que se le había dislocado un hombro de resultas del enfrentamiento, los otros activistas de Greenpeace continuaron su protesta, salvando a algunos cachorros y obligando al barco a retirarse tras abandonar cien pieles en el hielo. Ese año disminuyó por vez primera de forma importante el número de focas sacrificadas. Rivalizando con la campaña ballenera en cuanto a publicidad, la protesta por las focas había de convertirse en acontecimiento anual.

Pero había otro asunto de muy distinta índole que también se había convertido en cotidiano: la organización seguía desgarrada por disputas internas que reducían su eficacia. Hunter dimitió como presidente, y el 20 de abril de 1977 lo sustituyó Patrick Moore. Watson, acusado de crear disensiones en cuanto a la táctica de las campañas balleneras, fue apartado de la junta directiva tras una prolongada y amarga discusión. (Más tarde formaría su propio grupo conservacionista, la Sea Shepherd Foundation.) El capitán Cormack, también miembro de la junta, estaba fuertemente endeudado y en peligro de perder el barco. También la oficina de Vancouver tenía deudas de consideración. Diversos grupos disidentes estaban formando aparatos burocráticos y jerárquicos por su cuenta. La autoproclamada Greenpeace Foundation of America, Inc. eligió presidente a un tal Gary Zimmerman.

Pero en el centro de todo este torbellino se estaba tejiendo un fuerte hilo de continuidad. En 1976 y 1977, David McTaggart, todavía pleiteando contra el gobierno francés, al que acusaba de piratería y daños al Vega, reunió a varios activistas que pronto formarían el núcleo de Greenpeace Europa.

Desde su base de París, McTaggart empezó también a utilizar las oficinas londinenses de Amigos de la Tierra como dirección para los envíos por correo, y enseguida inició conversaciones con dos miem- bros de dicha organización Susi Newborn y Denis Bell para abrir en Londres una oficina de Greenpeace.

Como más tarde relató Peter Wilkinson, otro miembro de Amigos de la Tierra que se había unido a Greenpeace, «en 1977. cuatro personas creamos Greenpeace en el Reino Unido, con una oficina alquilada en la zona de Whitehall, en Londres, 800 libras y muchísima determinación».

Entre tanto, en París, en una manifestación organizada por los sindicatos de las centrales nucleares francesas, McTaggart conoció a un joven activista llamado Remi Parmentier, también miembro de Amigos de la Tierra. Entre los dos hicieron planes para abrir una oficina de Greenpeace en París, que empezó a operar en 1977.

Los voluntarios europeos empezaron también a ver la forma de incorporarse a las campañas de protección de las ballenas. Greenpeace sabía que en el mes de mayo del año siguiente una flota islandesa saldría a cazar al Atlántico Norte, y decidió hacer todo lo posible por detenerla. Denise Bel sólo concebía una forma de lograrlo: conseguir un barco protesta.

Originally published at https://cuidarelplaneta.com/ Juny 26, 2023.

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Flags July 1, 2023

'Militiawoman at a barricade on Hospital street, Barcelona July 1936', by Antoni Campañà

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Guazzini: “I'm delighted! »

Guazzini: “I’m delighted! »

Eleven years after his departure from the presidency of the Stade Français, Max Guazzini (75) has returned to music. Also a member of the board of directors of the Brigitte-Bardot Foundation, the former strongman of the Soldats Roses is nevertheless always delighted when the Parisian club shines. And this has been the case since the start of the season. The opportunity for the native of the…

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2022 fashion inspo for my own organization <3

2022 fashion icons:

Edie Sedgwick

Edie bouvier-Beale

Nancy Sinatra

Brigitte Bardot

Bianca Jagger

Uschi Obermaier

Sharon Tate

Inspiration:

Wong Kar Wai’s love trilogy

Any Wes Anderson movie set in the 60s

Cindy Sherman’s ‘Untitled Film Stills’

Rock Lobster by the b-52s

Groupies of the 60s

John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs

Colors & color combos:

Bright red

Hot pink

Head to toe black (in a chic way, not a goth way)

Kelly green

Red & Purple

Low contrast color palettes (i.e taupe, blush pink, chocolate, eggplant)

Trends:

Clean skin & dirty eyes

Big hair

‘Next-day’ makeup & hair

Micro mini skirts with long legs

Exposed shoulders

Scarves (tied around head or draped over neck)

Intentional seaming

Mock necks

Tights & stockings with seams

No foundation, minimal concealer

Face framing hair 

Chunky earrings

Saddle shoes & dancing shoes

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"Bardot was exemplary with me – no snobbery, no arrogance, not like other actresses. She preferred to have a drink at the bar in between working on the set. The morning of the shooting of our famous scene, she came in all her glory. It was amazing to see her next to me, not on the screen, but in real life. I looked her up and down, trying to find any flaw, and found none. She even had beautiful feet. I suggested that we intertwine our legs so that it would be unclear where our legs were. Vadim gave the signal to start shooting. He just said: "Let's go!" We didn't know what to do. Bardot smiled: "Can we sing 'Je t'aime... moi non plus’, "Or better yet,' My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean'!" This bed scene with Bardot was the only pleasant moment for me during the entire filming. I still treat her with great affection. Every time I send a check for her Animal Foundation, even for a small amount, she always sends me a hand-signed postcard. Serge, too, continued to be friends with her; sometimes they went to dinner together. After we parted, he put up life-size photographs of her in his living room again, taken by Sam Levin. Later, when Jacques Doillon and I were living in the Rue de Tours, Serge called me. "I have bad news for you," he began. "Tell me what happened!” "Brigitte called me. She wants us to record the original version of ‘Je t'aime...’ and send the money to her Foundation." He agreed, of course, and did the right thing. Since then, there are two versions of the disk. I think Bardot has always treasured it very much."

- Jane Birkin, "Munkey Diaries, 1957-1982" on filming Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973)

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Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Saint-Tropez, June 2015.

"I have a great sorrow like his dog Chipie who was his last and so faithful companion. I think of him, I loved him. I miss him and I no longer want to talk about him, the great pains are silent." 

- Brigitte Bardot comments on the death of her friend, the legendary French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo on September 7th 2021. He passed away on September 6th aged 88.

Jean-Paul adopted a crossed shepherd he named ‘Chipie’ from the Bardot foundation in 2012. The dog was previously abandoned by its owners.

[vintagefashionista]

1950s fashion documentary

I recently watched a documentary titled “The Extremes of Fashion: Women’s Couture and Media”. It covered recognizable fashion from the fifties, sixties, and seventies. But I particularly want to focus on the first segment of the documentary that covered the 1950's. I believe the fifties lays a good foundation for all other decades because most fashion brands were founded during this time along with many appreciable fashion pieces and trends.  

Defined as the fashion created by houses or designers known for trendsetting or expensive fashion, haute couture was at its peak in the fifties. The houses and designers inspired iconic fashion from the decade including hats, belts, and elegant dresses that snitched around the waist. Much like pencil and swing skirts that flourished in this time period. It is safe to say that during the 1950s women dressed for men, explaining the feminine silhouette of outfits along with their sophistication.

In the mid 1940s, a French designer, Louis Reard, invented the bikini. It took Europe by storm, becoming most popular throughout the fifties. But in its early years, bikinis were being banned off beaches left and right due to its two separate pieces. Many thought it resembled undergarments too closely, "one [piece] that pushed forward the bosom and the other that uncovered the belly". But speaking of swimwear, no lady in the fifties wanted to get their hair wet after seeing the stylish swim cap that they can pair with their bathing suit. Bikinis and swim caps created the perfect assemble of beachwear throughout the fifties. Thanks to Louis Reard, bikinis are the most popular type of swimwear amongst women today.  

Brigitte Bardot at the 6th International Cannes Film Festival, 1953

In every decade, the next fashion trends are always inspired by what celebrities pull off. The fifties weren’t any different. Glamorous movie stars like Marylin Monroe defined a whole era of fashion. And this documentary explained it perfectly. It uncovers that all decade's latest fashion trends thrive on getting the attention of celebrities. If a celebrity is seen wearing it, soon everyone else will be too. 

This documentary provides details of the past trends and how they inspired future ones today. It makes an interesting connection that keeps the viewer captivated, juxtaposing 50's fashion shows against more recent ones. It shows the similarities between different times but also how they inspire each other as well.

[bourbon-ontherocks]

(Previously, on GG rewatch...)

Yes, I know that I’m late to the party. No, I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s dive into the most nonsensical episode of this show instead...

I love that Jeff and Mary Pat are such a happy couple that Mary Pat can wander around the house for a WHOLE DAY and not see him while he's supposed to be home as well, and doesn’t wonder sooner where he's at

We need more shots of the three girls staring into space. Petition to have this mood back for season 4!

Dean: “You are allowed to feel sad or angry.” The kids: “More presents, yay!”

Kenny: “Presents come from both of you so if you're not married we should get double.” God, this child REALLY needs a maths tutor!!

The kids lecturing Beth and Dean for not being able to sort their issues makes me want to see their opinion on Beth and Rio's drama tbh...

Oh snap, I forgot that Turner came to mass too... Also Sara's deadpan inventory of missing cooking ingredients cracks me up every time.

There's literally no car dealership in the world that sells cars at fair price and has its employee high af like this (do you woo at work like this?? Do YOU???). This is science fiction.

So, does this mean that Mary Pat is still on witness protection despite Turner's threat? And they let her go to church?? I'm very confused...

Beth, facing something she can't open/bend to her will: hits it with a rock/a hammer/a roll of keys/a pool ball. Every. Single. Time.

Jesus, these church slogans are very inventive

Beth asking her phone back to a parenting Ruby because her crush didn't respond to her dozens of messages is a fucking mood tbh. Beth and Rio have the emotional maturity of early teenagers.

The girls facing Mary Pat gives me Once upon a time in the West vibes. Also Annie running after Mary Pat is one of my favourite moments ever.

Seriously??? A Brigitte Bardot song??? Someone needs to chill out with the vintage French pop songs asap...

Behold, the Greatest Inconsistency of all. Mary Pat telling her son that his father's death must remain a secret while she's been babbling all over town about it. Also. This says Four months ago??? So four (4!!) months happened ever since Mary Pat ran Boomer over?? @missmaxime does that fit in the timeline? So the dude's been hiding in an attic for months??? This show doesn't make any sense.

Forever in love with the edit of Mary Pat dragging a dead-ish body on a romantic 80s power ballad.

Please note that Boomer did NOT leave his phone on the tarp. Just saying...

Can someone explain to me why Mary Pat pretends that she killed and chopped off Boomer to the girls? I get that she wants to get rid of Jeff's body, but since she knows that Boomer's not dead, isn't it risky to claim having killed someone when this person might as well resurface the next day (and then the girls would realize she gave them the wrong body)???

So... That's Dean's excuse for scamming a customer? That he fucked up his marriage???? Jesus...

Annie saying that Leslie's alive, like... When exactly did it sound like a good idea to tell Marion that he was dead?? I mean, if some stranger came to me saying with certitude that one of my relatives is dead, I might instantly suspect them of being the murderer!

Those spaghettis and meatballs looked so yummy, though, I’m so sad they ended up on Dean’s shirt... Also I love that Dean is trying to have a dramatic breakdown moment but only gets an exasperated wince from Beth!

Now, Rio calling right after "How was your day, dear?" THAT'S a dramatic moment!! Dean must be so pissed haha!

Rio's comment about emojis is the foundation of my headcanon that Beth doesn't know how to use emojis right

Honestly, if I were watching this episode for the first time, I'd think that "I was at Legoland" was an ironic answer... Also am I the only one who's got Manny vibes during the Legoland description?? Like, he so WOULD say that on an interview...

"I'm about to be arrested for murder." "That sucks." Gosh, every line is perfectly hilarious. This whole scene would be peak comedy if they'd added warmer lights and a circus music instead of this dark, angsty setting.

In Rio's defense, he never said that Beth was work, only that her problem was. I love how she instantly narrows everything back to her and makes it personal!

Based on his pupils' angle, Rio's saying "pretty much, yeah" to Beth's vagina. Which... surprisingly ties up. Although it's clearly his most unsubtle way (and I mean, the bar was quite low) to let her know that she's everything but work. I just -- I can't with these morons!

In what Universe is this shower louder than Annie and Noah's voices???

I don't understand Annie's logic: if Boomer bought that vibrator, why would Marion point that expense out? And if the latter already knew about the credit card theft, why did she point it out anyway??? This makes no sense. Again.

Who has an attic in an apartment?? Does anyone on this show knows what an apartment is?

[weirdlandtv]

The daily Brigitte Bardot post.

Photos 3, 4, and 5 were taken at her farm in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne. Though she originally purchased the farm to hide from the public eye, it gradually developed into an animal sanctuary, laying the groundwork for her Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which is still very active in the fight against animal cruelty and the promotion of animal rights. (Like me, Bardot’s a vegan.)

In the 1980s, she auctioned off her memorabilia and jewellery to raise capital for the foundation, even donating her Saint Tropez property, La Madrague, to it. A life dedicated to a cause.

[historical-babes]

Brigitte Bardot (1934-).

French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist.

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She is often referred to by the initials B.B. And is a French former actress and singer, and animal rights activist. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated personae with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.

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Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in the controversial And God Created Woman, and also caught the attention of French intellectuals. She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome, which described her as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. For her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film Viva Maria! she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.

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Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973. She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985 but refused to accept it. After retiring, she became an animal rights activist. In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She became a vegetarian and raised three million francs (€811,000 in 2019 euros) to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and personal belongings.

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During the 2000s she generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France, and she has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred. Her current husband is a former leader of the far right party National Front and Bardot expressed support for Marine le Pen, current leader of the National Front.

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She was married five times: Roger Vadim (1952); Jacques Charrier (1959); Gunter Sachs (1966); Bernard d'Ormale (m. 1992). She had various other love affairs notably with Jean-Louis Trintigrant, Gilbert Bécaud or Serge Gainsbourg. She has only one son.

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After her divorce to Vadim and breakup to Trintigrant, she attempted suicide with sleeping pills. On her 49th birthday in 1983, Bardot took an overdose of sleeping pills or tranquilizers with red wine. She had to be rushed to the hospital, where her life was saved after a stomach pump was used to evacuate the pills from her body. Bardot is also a breast cancer survivor.

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Famous movies:

... And God Created Woman

Contempt

La Parisienne

Love Is My Profession

The Truth

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Famous songs:

La Madrague

Moi Je Joue

Bonnie And Clyde

Harley Davidson

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Brigitte Bardot by Jak.

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