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Jane Mallory Birkin (14 December 1946 – 16 July 2023)
Jane Mallory Birkin was born in London in December 1946, daughter of British actress Judy Campbell and Royal Navy commander David Birkin.
She had lived in her adopted France since the late 1960s and apart from her singing and roles in dozens of films, she was a popular figure for her warm nature, stalwart fight for women’s and LGBT rights.
1972, Abortion Trial in Bobigny:
British singer and actress Jane Birkin participates in a pro-choice demonstration of support for French family planning during an abortion trial in Bobigny.
Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images.
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Jane Birkin gives a speech during a demonstration in front of Notre Dame's Cathedral in Paris on October 11, 2006, four days after the murder in Moscow of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.  DOMINIQUE FAGET/GETTY IMAGES
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Jane Mallory Birkin (14 December 1946 – 16 July 2023)
Jane Mallory Birkin was born in London in December 1946, daughter of British actress Judy Campbell and Royal Navy commander David Birkin.
She had lived in her adopted France since the late 1960s and apart from her singing and roles in dozens of films, she was a popular figure for her warm nature, stalwart fight for women's and LGBT rights.
She first took to the stage aged 17 and went on to appear in the 1965 musical "Passion Flower Hotel" by conductor and composer John Barry, whom she married shortly after. The marriage ended in the late 1960s.
Before venturing across the Channel aged 22, she achieved notoriety in the controversial 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film "Blow-Up", appearing naked in a threesome sex scene.
But it was in France that she truly shot to fame, as much for her love affair with tormented national star Gainsbourg, as for her tomboyish style and endearing British accent when speaking French.
It was on the set of the film "Slogan" in 1969 that Birkin first met Gainsbourg, who was recovering from a break-up with Brigitte Bardot, and the two quickly began a love affair that captivated the nation.
That same year they released "Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus" ("I Love You... Me Neither"), a song about physical love originally written for Bardot in which Gainsbourg's explicit lyrics are punctuated with breathy moans and cries from Birkin.
The song was banned by the BBC and condemned by the Vatican.
Following the breakup of that relationship in 1981, she continued her career as a singer and actress, appearing on stage and releasing albums such as "Baby Alone in Babylone" in 1983, and "Amour des Feintes" in 1990, both with words and music by Gainsbourg.
Gainsbourg's drinking eventually got the better of the relationship, and Birkin left him in 1981 to live with film director Jacques Doillon. However she remained close to the troubled singer until his death in March 1991.
It was around this time that she inspired the famous Birkin bag by French luxury house Hermes, after chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas saw her struggling with her straw bag on a flight to London, spilling the contents over the floor.
She wrote her own album "Arabesque" in 2002, and in 2009 released a collection of live recordings, "Jane at the Palace".
She is survived by two daughters the singer and actress Charlotte, born in 1971, and Lou Doillon, also an actress, born in 1982. She also had a daughter, Kate, who was born in 1967 and died in 2013.
(Reporting by John Irish Editing by David Goodman and Frances Kerry)
(Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime,...Moi Non Plus)
Rest in peace to the Timeless Style Icon and Epitome of Effortless Chic
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lagrenouillere · 1 year ago
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urmumsfavour1te · 1 year ago
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rip to this angel
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pinupdelore · 1 year ago
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theehorsepusssy · 1 year ago
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"She looks like she's being dressed by Woolworths"
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trevorme · 1 year ago
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RIP, Jane Birkin
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girlsdressingrooms · 1 year ago
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Jane Mallory Birkin (14 December 1946 – 16 July 2023)
Jane Mallory Birkin was born in London in December 1946, daughter of British actress Judy Campbell and Royal Navy commander David Birkin.
She had lived in her adopted France since the late 1960s and apart from her singing and roles in dozens of films, she was a popular figure for her warm nature, stalwart fight for women’s, LGBT and animals rights.
In 1984, Hermès chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas was seated next to Jane Birkin on a flight from Paris to London. Birkin had just placed her straw traveling bag in the overhead compartment for her seat, but the contents fell to the deck, leaving her to scramble to replace them. Birkin explained to Dumas that it had been difficult to find a leather weekend bag she liked.
Dumas took this encounter as inspiration to create a supple black leather bag, based on an earlier design, the Haut à Courroies, which Hermès had created around 1900.
In July 2015, Birkin asked Hermès to stop using her name for the crocodile version due to ethical concerns, as PETA alleged crocodile farms supplying the hide to Hermès for the manufacture of the bags crammed their animals into barren concrete pits.
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delusiionalgirl · 1 year ago
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rip queen 🤍
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cristalnochampange · 1 year ago
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jxfavre · 1 year ago
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ivovynckier · 1 year ago
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RIP French actress Jane Birkin. She was married to film composer John Barry (65-68). (Their daughter Kate Barry committed suicide.) Her brother Andrew Birkin worked for Stanley Kubrick (on 2001!).
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visualpoett · 1 year ago
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myhughniverse · 1 year ago
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onryou-onryou · 1 year ago
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Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - Je t'aime... moi non plus/Original videoclip (Fontana 1969)
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pinupdelore · 1 year ago
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r.i.p Jane 😭
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