From the archives: The iconic Jane Birkin

Abroad, she was one of the most photographed women of the '60s, the voice of perhaps the most scandalous song of that decade, but Jane Birkin may be best known for the highly desirable Hermes fashion accessory that bears her name when I went to United States, I don't know what. in which interview they said you mean working like the stock market so I said oh what other stock market is going to sing in my obituary will say turn on the stock market or something like that it's so funny after all this maybe they know you for a stock market I could well, it could be worse Birkin realized for the first time that you weren't expecting us, you were in Miguel Ángel Antonio's 60's classic when she stole naked on screen, she was only 18 and already married to John Barry, the arranger of the James Bond theme, but then he left her it was a disaster and I was left with my daughter Kate and then I thought that I had not been able to keep the man I loved yes and he is 19 20 years old it is terrible I had no confidence in myself she went to Paris to audition for a movie called slogan and she was paired with Serge Gainesville, from what I understand, it wasn't love at first sight, no, suddenly, I came crawling, I can't speak French, it's because I didn't know any other friendship. call him there to his face, yes, but she got the part and the man who was building a reputation as the French Bob Dylan just came out of a very unhappy affair with Bridget Bardot which has to be a little intimidating, no, no, I know, I thought, Oh my God. if he had been in love with the most beautiful woman in the world, which was Badoo at the time, yes, and if he could take me to see me in the country, Gainsborg had written a song for Bardot that he now wanted Birkin to sing, Ming may.

He seems tame today, but in 1969 he was incendiary. What did you make of the je'taime controversy? Oh nothing, it was great. She remembers the reaction the first time she heard it in a Paris restaurant. We saw all the knives and forks in the air. like that and I say, I said, I think we have a hit record, then the Pope goes and bans it and the BBC, yes, it was in the bag, the best publicity that could be obtained cannot be better for 13 years. Birkin and Gansbourg were inseparable. They were a couple of composer and muse until their drinking problem fractured the fairy tale, so suddenly a beautiful boy appears and, what's more, I find him interesting, while it was always for the wise Versace he was the great man, yeah, I guess I wanted to be noticed, that guy was the French director.

Jacques Dwayne, who asked her to play a depressed wife in his film The Prodigal Daughter, no one had ever asked me to take psychological charge of a role like that and to have my shirt buttoned up to listen to the rest she wasn't interested in and then she dumb. They joined Dwell and had a daughter, but Serge stayed in the scene and continued writing songs for her until her death in 1991, when Sash died, everything else fell apart and nothing was the same again. Birkin and Wyong separated and she focused on her three daughters, Kate. The eldest, a successful photographer, battled depression in 2013.

Kate Barry fell from her apartment window. An apparent suicide for almost three years. Jane Birkin could barely leave her home in Paris. You feel like someone has pulled the rug out from under your feet. Yeah, you didn't see that coming. I saw it coming on many other occasions and I could have been there and I don't know, but not this time, so she completely took my trust away. Is your confidence returning? No, trust is a small thing that is irreplaceable. and uh, and the lack of it will be forever. You have two other lovely successful daughters, so you must be very proud of that.

Yes, Charlotte has an album that will be released in a movie right now. Charlotte Gansbourg is a renowned actress and singer and Ludwig has won. the French Grammy at 71 Jane Birkin has begun to find her way again touring the world performing Serge Galsberg songs with an orchestra next month for the first time she will play at Carnegie Hall in New York that's a pretty big name It's a big name but it's just a big hole you just have to fill it it's nice what it meant to you to sing these songs this way now it's like being on the most wonderful velvet cushion Ed when I was 20 years old. until the day he died so he has given me good treatment in that he showed me far to move forward