#Muse: Brigitte

[obese-overwatch]

Buttered Popcorn Brigitte

Brigitte didn't know what had come over her that day, but she just wasn't feeling full at all, no matter how much she ate it drank. None of the dense foods she packed in, none of the heavy tankards of beer she downed, it wasn't satisfying her gluttonous belly at all! So the only thing she could thing to do was...keep on eating and drinking, to try and see if there was an amount she had to eat to actually feel full and satisfied!

Hours later, with her belly spreading out across the floor from how much was in it, the now very drunk Brigitte was still going, the room littered with empty crates and legs, also full of the smells of food and all the belches she was letting out constantly too...

#muse: brigitte #anon

[watchingxover]

//Muse tag dump; main verse

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[thegroovywitch]

Brigitte Bardot in Rome, 1967.

#brigitte bardot #1960s #60s #actress #60s actress #60s muse #sixties #by dee dee

[shamelesscollectivepuppy]

Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film, Le Mépris (Contempt)

#brigitte bardot #beauty #natural beauty #bw #muse #french actress #black and white #jean luc godard #le mepris #1960s

[phyleaspace]

#brigitte bardot #icon #legend #France #cinema #muse

[yayobabydoll]

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୨୧ alana champion is my muse

my favs ♡︎

music artists : lana del rey (above all ♡︎), mazzy star, ariana grande, marina, ethel cain, fiona apple, nancy sinatra, frank sinatra, lesley gore, hole, mitski, the weeknd, nirvana, jeff buckley, cas, the smiths, brigitte bardot, dean martin

tv shows : gilmore girls, pretty little liars, gossip girl, the dick van dyke show, scream queens, ahs, the nanny, skins

movies : the virgin suicides, girl interrupted, black swan, lolita (1997), priscilla, jennifer's body, gone girl, buffalo ‘66, mean girls, valley of the dolls, coraline, twilight

books : violet bent backwards over the grass, the virgin suicides, valley of the dolls, the bell jar, my year of rest and relaxation, and girl interrupted

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[vintage-every-day]

You can tell that the camera loved Brigitte Bardot, even as a young woman. This would help her become many directors’ muse over the next few years.

#vintage #brigitte bardot #1950s

[pendragony]

“With Dean Winchester, Ackles uses every part of himself, anger, humor, tenderness, thought, sexuality, frustration – you name it – he’s a kaleidoscope – all filtered through this specific character – and not once does it seem like he’s pushing. Everything is at his fingertips, it’s all natural, it flows. This is what I mean when I connect him to the John Wayne-Gary Cooper brigade, with a little Cary Grant thrown in, a little Brigitte Bardot there for seasoning. Or Theda Bara. Ackles has a Vamp in him, which he was able to use - to often comedic but sometimes destabilizing fascinating effect - in the role. He vamped organically. He’d turn it into a joke, but that was only because he couldn’t help himself. He gravitated towards the Vamp. (This is connected to the Burlesque aspect of Dean Winchester: how he “plays” himself.)

“And just to make sure we don’t get too comfortable, the Vamp has some FEELINGS about other people NOTICING the Vamp-ness. He’s not sure he likes it. But maybe he likes it. He’s confused! Dean is not entirely in control of what he’s putting out there. He tries to maintain control. He fails. Repeatedly.

“Ackles never got sick of exploring this contradiction. He was able to show it as funny, but also as a trap, he was able to show how Dean used it, but then regretted using it. It’s amazing.”

Sheila O’Malley - Jensen Ackles: The Beauty, the Burlesque, the Schtick, and the Erotic-Muse Reality Distortion Field

#dean winchester #spn meta #spn #jensen ackles #sheila o’malley #jacting joices

[theroyalsandi]

Dutch Royal Family - Queen Maxima and Brigitte Macron during the opening of Sculpting the Senses exhibition by Iris van Herpen at Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris | November 28, 2023

#royaltyedit #theroyalsandi #queen maxima #brigitte macron

[bitter69uk]

“Former sex kitten turned respected musician and actress – there’s no real equivalent to Jane Birkin on the American scene. The English bird who first gained notoriety doing the female Full Monty in Blow-Up, Birkin moved to France and fell in love with splay-faced boulevardier Serge Gainsbourg. They dueted on “Je T’Aime … Moi Non Plus”, a hit single in which she performed what remains the most convincing orgasm in the history of popular culture, Donna Summer and Meg Ryan notwithstanding. Notoriety wears thin over time, but Birkin hung in there and carved out a real career in her adopted country, acting in increasingly well-received films and, with Gainsbourg (until his death in 1991), recording increasingly well-received albums that made the most of her wispy but effective voice.”

/ Vanity Fair magazine on Jane Birkin /

“Serge Gainsbourg, French pop’s leering Marquis de Sade, first cast a predatory eye over British starlet Jane Birkin in 1968. Their orgasmic 1969 duet “Je T’Aime … Moi Non Plus” established them as a kinky Eurotrash Sonny and Cher. Even after their 1981 divorce, he continued to write songs for her until his death in 1991. While Gainsbourg composed songs for other French chanteuses (including Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Greco and Francoise Hardy), Birkin remains his definitive muse thanks to the intimacy of her fragile delivery in hesitant French of his toxic sweet nothings (often about herself) in a cut glass Chelsea girl accent. Now in her mid-50s, Birkin still looks every inch the ageless tomboy waif and is fiercely committed to maintaining the musical legacy of her mentor …”

/ Believe it or not, I wrote the above for The Guardian’s Weekend Guide in March 2003 (over twenty years ago!) when Birkin was performing her Arabesque album at The Barbican /

Wow – how sad to bid adieu to the truly great “Jane B” (14 December 1946 - 16 July 2023). I was lucky to see Birkin in concert many times over the years: she was reliably commanding, charismatic and exuded sheer elegance.

#jane birkin #serge gainsbourg #french pop #french chanson #chanteuse #english rose #sex kitten #lobotomy room

[obese-overwatch]

27: After years of not having her weight checked, and constant, constant feeding that made her blow up in size to the point where her old weight looks small in comparison, Piggy Brigitte finally weighs in again!~

The enormous blob was so fat that they needed a crane to haul her onto the industrial scale the anon had made for her, she was as excited as they were to see the number when she was placed down upon it. Such a vast amount of fat, all across her body in a fairly even spread, which she knew her anon master loved. She would do anything for her anon owner, it was what she had been made for, after all!

"What does it say, master? Is piggy big and fat like master wanted me to be?" She asked the anon with an eager grin, panting a little with excitement. She was definitely an adorable, simple piggy, but capable of more complex speech than Piggy Mercy. Though she would make anyone look like a genius by comparison.

The number on the scale whirred around as it had to keep recalculating whenever her fat wobbled, and the groaning of the scale itself throwing it off. After a few minutes, it finally managed to decide a number and displayed it for the anon to see: 722,071lbs.

#muse: piggy brigitte #anon

[justforbooks]

The sultry 1969 hit single Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus was a four-and-a-half-minute distillation of languid Gallic cool, in which a Frenchman, his voice coarsened by Gitanes, is heard billing and cooing with an ecstatically sighing young Englishwoman over the swirling motif of a baroque organ. That man was Serge Gainsbourg; his companion was Jane Birkin, the actor and singer, who has died aged 76. Though Birkin worked with some of the world’s finest film-makers, including Jacques Rivette and Agnès Varda, she knew that Je T’aime … would be remembered above everything else she did. “When I die, that’ll be the tune they play, as I go out feet first,” she said.

Birkin was 21 when she and Gainsbourg met while starring together in the film Slogan (1969). He was 40, and had previously recorded Je T’aime … as a duet with Brigitte Bardot, only for the actor to withdraw permission for it to be released. Birkin had already starred in a 1965 musical, Passion Flower Hotel, scored by John Barry, whom she married that year at the age of 19 and from whom she was divorced in 1968; he was the father of Kate, the first of Birkin’s three daughters. But it was on the duet with Gainsbourg, she said, that for the first time “somebody thought I had a pretty voice”.

She sang her part an octave higher than Bardot. “It gave it a choirboy side that [Gainsbourg] liked a lot,” she said. Rumor's that the vocal track was recorded under the covers during a moment of intimacy were untrue (the couple were standing at separate microphones in a studio in central London) though they did nothing to harm the mythology surrounding a song that was later condemned by the Vatican. “I just remember thinking it was all terribly funny,” she said.

Among the countries that refused to give the song airplay was Britain, where it became the first banned single to reach the top of the charts, as well as the first non-English-language No 1. It was also the lead track on the 1969 album Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg.

Birkin’s life remained inextricably linked to his. They were together for 11 years, and had a daughter, Charlotte, who became a successful singer and actor. Even after they separated in 1980, he continued to write for her, and she went on performing his songs for the rest of her life.

Far from being an adjunct to Gainsbourg’s legend, she possessed her own style, intelligence and attitude. Her wistful beauty was rendered unorthodox by an eager, gap-toothed smile. Her voice was as bewitching as her face: though she lived in France from 1969 onwards, and spoke French fluently, she never shed her breathy, crisply English accent.

She was born in London to Judy Campbell, an actor who had been a muse to Noël Coward, and David Birkin, who was a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and a spy during the second world war. His duties included taking British spies across the Channel to France and bringing back stranded airmen and escaped prisoners of war.

Jane was educated at Upper Chine school on the Isle of Wight. At 17 she starred with Ralph Richardson in Graham Greene’s play Carving a Statue; Greene himself had a hand in casting her. Her screen acting career began with a walk-on part in The Knack … and How to Get It (1965) and a controversial nude scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, which she agreed to because Barry had told her she wouldn’t dare.

She had a small role in the Warren Beatty caper Kaleidoscope (also 1966), played a model called Penny Lane in the psychedelic curiosity Wonderwall (1968) and starred with Romy Schneider and Alain Delon in the psychological thriller La Piscine (1969). She got on famously with Bardot when they starred together in Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973). Gainsbourg directed her in a 1976 film named after their hit song; he cast her as a boyish woman who attracts the attentions of a gay man, played by the Warhol regular Joe Dallesandro.

Birkin was tremendous fun in two star-studded Agatha Christie thrillers, Death on the Nile (1978) and Evil Under the Sun (1982). In the cryptic Love on the Ground (1984), Rivette cast her and Geraldine Chaplin as actors drawn into a playwright’s mysterious world. She appeared in two films, The Pirate (1984) and Comedy! (1987), made by her then partner, Jacques Doillon, with whom she had her third daughter, Lou, also a singer and actor. Jean-Luc Godard directed her in Keep Your Right Up (also 1987), while for Varda she played a woman besotted with a 14-year-old boy in Kung-Fu Master! (1988); the film co-starred Charlotte and featured Lou, and was inspired by an idea by Birkin herself.

In the same year, Varda made her the subject of Jane B For Agnès V, in which the actor performed a variety of specially scripted scenes (in one, she was a Stan Laurel type, in another a cockney mother) interspersed with musings on her life. She received the documentary treatment once again when her daughter directed Jane By Charlotte (2021).

Her two most impressive performances came in Bertrand Tavernier’s These Foolish Things, aka Daddy Nostalgie (1990), in which she was moving as a woman trying to repair her relationship with her dying father (Dirk Bogarde); and La Belle Noiseuse (1991), Rivette’s spellbinding four-hour study of a painter (Michel Piccoli) and his new muse (Emmanuelle Béart), in which Birkin played the artist’s wife and former model, who must deal with the indignity of having her younger self literally painted over.

Later films included Alain Resnais’s musical On Connaît la Chanson (1997) and the Merchant-Ivory coming-of-age story A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998).

In 2002 Birkin was diagnosed with leukaemia, but by 2006 she had made her directorial debut with the autobiographical family drama Boxes, which she also wrote and starred in, along with Chaplin, Piccoli, John Hurt and her daughter Lou. She appeared in Rivette’s final film, Around a Small Mountain (2009), played herself in Hong Sang-soo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, and was reunited with Tavernier for his comedy The French Minister (also 2013).

Her look had been widely applauded in the 1960s, and seemed never to go out of date. In the 80s Hermès introduced a large and exorbitantly priced leather bag, named “the Birkin” in her honour. Fashion journalists in recent years could still be heard celebrating the “Jane Birkin top”, referring to the white lace dress made famous by her in the late 60s. “Real life was what I was best at,” she told Vogue magazine in 2016. “I didn’t have confidence in movie cameras or on stage. But I did have confidence in what I wanted in real life. If I wanted to be barefoot and wear a mackintosh, I would do it. I didn’t give a hoot.”

It was at 40 that she finally discarded her youthful ingénue image and performed her first live concert: “I cut my hair off like a boy, I wore men’s clothes. I only wanted people to hear the music and words. It was fantastic. And it was so frightening. Serge was there and he kept lighting his cigarette lighter to make everybody put their lighters on.” That show was preserved on her 1987 album, Jane Birkin au Bataclan. She continued singing and recording into her old age; among her later albums is Birkin/Gainsbourg: Le Symphonique, from 2017, in which the couple’s songs received new orchestral arrangements.

In 2020 she published Munkey Diaries 1957-1982, containing diary entries addressed to her favourite cuddly toy from childhood, which she can be seen clutching on the cover of Gainsbourg’s 1971 album Histoire de Melody Nelson. She buried the toy with him after his death in 1991.

She is survived by Charlotte and Lou, and six grandchildren, and by her brother, Andrew, and sister, Linda. Kate, a photographer, died in 2013.

🔔 Jane Mallory Birkin, actor and singer, born 14 December 1946; died 16 July 2023

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

#JUST FOR BOOKS #Jane Birkin #in memoriam

[thegroovywitch]

Brigitte Bardot posing on all-fours at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

#MAMAA 😍 #1950s #fifties #50s #50's #1950's #50s actress #50s model #50s muse #50s vintage #50s aesthetic #50s fashion #50s film #50s movies #by dee dee #brigitte bardot

[gatabella]

It's crazy seeing photos of Brigitte Bardot in the 1950s, she looked so different from all the other female stars of her era. The way she dressed, styled her hair and even the way she behaved (like being honest about not wanting to be a mother and dumping and taking men publicaly without caring what people thought). She was also going barefoot long before the hippies existed.

I don't know where her free spirit comes from, considering she was born in such a bourgeois family. But speaking about looks, in the early 1950s there was a Picasso muse - Sylvette David - called "The Girl With a Ponytail". She accused BB of stealing her style. But on the whole Brigitte had different hair styles and she attracted attention wherever she went just because it's her.

#brigitte bardot #ponytail #sylvette david

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Je pense qu'il m'aime et je l'aime. Je ne peux rien faire sans son regard, pour ou contre. J'ai besoin de son regard, j'ai besoin de sa force, même si ça m'inspire d'aller contre sa volonté. Il doit être là, toujours là, il garde mes grands pieds sur terre et parfois il m'aide à m'envoler.

Jane Birkin on Serg Gainsbourg

Jane Birkin will always be France’s favourite “petite Anglaise”, but few will have even guessed at the depth of the insecurity suffered by the “little English girl”. The British-born actress and singer captured Gallic hearts when, aged 21 and the epitome of London’s Sixties cool, she took up with singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg – 20 years her senior and the bad boy of French popular music. The public was fascinated by his excesses and his outrageous behaviour – he once burned a 500 franc note live on television to protest at his tax bill and had made a reggae version of La Marseillaise – and by her Sixties style and heavily accented French.

Their turbulent relationship hit the headlines many times during a 13-year affair which saw the release of their controversial duet ‘Je t’aime… moi non plus’ (I love you…me neither), which Gainsbourg originally wrote for Brigitte Bardot, a record condemned by the pope and banned by radio stations in the UK for being sexually explicit.

The decades passed, the couple split, Gainsbourg’s drinking and smoking caught up with him, and he died, but in her adopted homeland Birkin, now dead, will always be remembered as his muse but also as a muse and style icon in her own right.

RIP Jane Birkin (1946-2023)

#birkin #jane birkin #quote #gaze #relationship #amour #serg gainsbourg #gainsbourg #singer #muse #icon #femme #beauty #british #french #arts #culture

[specialagentblogger]

The Icon Status of Jane Birkin

Best known for being the muse behind the renowned Hermès Birkin bag, Jane was and still is, one of the world's most famous icons. She made her way in the British cinema scene during the mid 60s and was a part of films like: The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) and Blow-Up(1966). The latter led her to a career-defining role in  Slogan (1969), during the making of which Jane met her decade-long partner, the famous French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. The pair was best known for the French love song "Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus", recorded in 1967 with Brigitte Bardot. After he fell for Jane, Serge asked her to re-record the song. "Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus" was banned in several countries due to its overtly sexual content. Thus began a love story of the century. The couple's wild lifestyle inspired a freedom in an era when sexual expression was still taboo.

STYLE ICON

 Jane Birkin acquired her style icon status through her day-to-day outfits. Her relaxed British demeanor, clean statement pieces, and French elegance were a killer combination. Thus, Jane stood out amongst other iconic stars of the time - bombshell beauty symbols such as Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, etc. Birkin's signature look was her long, usually messy, bedhead hair and fringe, flared blue jeans, simple white tees, and the capacious woven basket. However, it would be naive and unfair to say that Jane was an icon only because of her clothes. 

LA PISCINE (1969) - a short summary

This slow-burn erotic crime drama directed by Jaques Deray follows Romy Schneider and Alain Delon as Marianne and Jean-Paul - a couple vacationing in a luxurious villa in the French Riviera. La Piscine presents an atmosphere that feels exactly like a careless summer holiday. The sweetness of doing nothing, dinners outside, bottles of wine, dancing, sleeping, kissing, and none other than - swimming in the pool. That is until, Jean-Paul’s old friend and Marianne’s former lover Harry drops by, along with his teenage daughter Penelope (Jane Birkin).

Costume Design

The person behind the costume design of La Piscine was the French designer André Courrèges. The looks made for Jane, specifically, were very much close to her actual style. Minimalistic colour palettes, simple silhouettes, and, most importantly, comfort mixed with elegance. These choices make Penelope's teenage essence stand out amongst all the rest of the thirty-something characters. We see lots of short skirts, revealing dresses, and very little make-up on her. Penelope's first look in the film includes a classic white 3/4 sleeved shirt, tucked into a mini checkered skirt. The accessories perfectly elevate this simple look. A delicate black belt to enhance the waist, black ballet mini-heels (talk about comfortable elegance), massive round sunglasses with blue lenses, and, of course, the basket.

Poolside Crochet Dress

Another statement look for Jane was this gorgeous white crochet poolside dress. The '60s was the decade for crochet pieces, thus it was representative of the trends. An ideal piece to throw on after a swim (with great ventilation too). The dress has a densely crocheted top around the bust area and reveals more skin going down, with a rather loosely crocheted spider-web pattern. It perfectly encapsulates Penelope's character - as the dress blends sensuality with a bit of alluring elegance. Good luck to me, because I will be trying to crochet this.

SWIMMING SUITS When there's a swimming pool, there's always a swimming suit (well...). Because of the luxurious and colourful mise en scene in the film, the bathing suits worn by both Romy and Jane were either black or white shades. The pieces presented a distinct contrast between the greenery of the landscapes and the marine blue of the pool. This choice was the most immaculate way of capturing the effortless and elegant French way of dressing. As well as accentuating the dichotomy of both characters.

JANE B. FOR Agnès V.

In 1988, the French filmmaker Agnès Varda decided to create an experimental documentary about Jane Birkin. The idea came from their conversation on how Jane felt anxious about turning forty. Agnès thought that it was the perfect opportunity to make a beautiful portrait of Jane's life. The documentary is filled with Jane acting in fake movie scenes, posing in Goya and Tiziano Vecelli's "paintings", portraying Joan of Arc, visiting her childhood home, and talking about her life. Varda's vision of Jane brings a magnetic piece of work to life. It is a must-watch for anyone who admires Jane or wishes to know a bit more about her.

“I’m Jane B. I was born British. My height now is 5 feet 7 inches. No distinguishing marks. No exceptional talents, but I’m here. You’re watching me as time passes.” - says Jane in the film. It seemed that everyone but herself thought of her as a charming, magnetic person. Not only Agnès Varda but also Jane's daughter, actress and director Charlotte Gainsbourg, created an ode to her mother in 2021, called Jane for Charlotte. Finally, in her forties, Jane fully embraced her lifelong insecurities - she cut her hair short, exchanged ballet shoes for old sneakers, and started wearing oversized men's suits. Jane lived the second half of her life in her truest form, until the very end.

I started writing this a couple of days before Jane's death. I thought the timing was hauntingly coincidental. She has been a part of my life ever since I read about her for the first time in Alexa Chung's IT (2013). It was one of those moments, where you can just sense that a person is special and I could not look away. I started watching her interviews, pinning every possible photo of her on Pinterest, printing out photos of her to hang on my wall, listening to her music, and watching her films. I cut my fringe at fifteen because of her and started separating my bottom lashes with lumpy mascara... My mum even bought me a basket-like bag to carry with me. Jane Birkin was not only a style icon to me. Her humble confidence, magnetic presence, and grace were the qualities I admired the most about her. Now, that is true beauty.

Rest easy, dear Jane. Au revoir.

#Jane Birkin #La Piscine #Fashion in Film #agnes varda #cinema #cinemetography #alain delon #romy schneider #serge gainsbourg