Jane Birkin and A.P.C.’s Jean Touitou have perfected the performer’s iconic wardrobe for her first-ever fashion collection
“Serge [Gainsbourg] used to say, ‘Oh, lick your lips and toss your hair back,’ ” recalls Jane Birkin, the singer and actor, of the fashion advice her former partner used to give her. And one day, “I said, ‘No, I won’t do that anymore. I want not to notice what I look like at all!’ ” That was when, about 40 years ago, she exchanged her minidresses and hot pants for the low-key, boyish charms of baggy trousers and men’s shirts—ironically, a style that has become even more imitated.
Birkin thinks obsessively about the smallest peculiarities of what she wears and how the subtlest change might make something fine into something indispensable. She has always wanted the neck of a T-shirt or sweater to scoop a bit lower because it then drapes just off the shoulder, “which is rather attractive.
“It’s a whole art to be invisible,” Touitou muses. “To be noticed for what you actually do or say or write and not for your appearance.” When image represents much of what we’re supposed to be, he says, what he and Birkin wanted to do instead “was be invisible and yet very elegant.”Harper’s Bazaar., working across print and digital platforms. Previously, she was.
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