Basket bags are just the start. Here's how to embody Jane Birkin's Parisian boheme approach to dressing.
She was hardly precious about the bag that bore her name, though. She was known to adorn hers with stickers when she did wear it and told the BBC that if you fill the bag with “junk… and half the furniture from your house, it’s a very, very heavy bag… Now I fill my pockets like a man, because then you don’t actually have to carry anything.
Her real life style and on-screen wardrobes are so entwined it’s difficult to separate the two. Her outfits in “La Piscine” are seared into the subconscious of anyone with a passing fascination with French cinema — or Birkin. That white bikini, more crochet, low slung leather belts, a gingham mini dress, and a basket bag, of course, can send anyone with a pulse down a vintage rabbit hole search on eBay and Etsy.
But Birkin’s chic-yet-undone style didn’t end when she could no longer claim youth, it merely evolved, and aged as beautifully as she did. She traded the skin-baring, simple-yet-glamorous pieces of an ingenue for the insouciant style of a grown up. Paper bag waist trousers, cashmere , oversized trench coats, white button-downs, and le smoking jackets were swapped for low slung flares, denim short shorts, military peacoats, and swingy fringe dresses.to new generations of would-be Jane acolytes, the fashion establishment has continued its fascination with her as well. Last year she co-designed her sole fashion collaboration with French mainstay APC. As recently as 2016, Birkin starred in Saint Laurent ads, hand picked by Hedi Slimane.
Even after nearly 60 years in the public eye, a place predicated upon the very idea of transience and the hunt for next big thing, everyone still wants to embody a bit of Birkin — whether by dropping $20,000 on the handbag made in her honor, posing on a sail boat in white jeans and a cropped top for the ‘gram, or finally committing to that iconic fringe.
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