Jane Birkin: Decades of Effortless Elegance

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She is largely remembered for the luxury Hermès handbag that she inspired and that was named for her

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Chic may be “nothing,” as the opera director and designer Patrick Kinmonth once observed, “but it’s the right nothing

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Starting in the early days of her fame as muse and consort to the musical artist Serge Gainsbourg, Ms. Birkin was perennially dressed in exactly the right nothing

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Her style was very different from American style,” Ms. Sui said, and it introduced “something new to our fashion vocabulary

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Jane Birkin: Decades of Effortless Elegance

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She is largely remembered for the luxury Hermès handbag that she inspired and that was named for her

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Chic may be “nothing,” as the opera director and designer Patrick Kinmonth once observed, “but it’s the right nothing

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Starting in the early days of her fame as muse and consort to the musical artist Serge Gainsbourg, Ms. Birkin was perennially dressed in exactly the right nothing

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Her style was very different from American style,” Ms. Sui said, and it introduced “something new to our fashion vocabulary

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