Actress, singer and muse with a perfect fringe to boot. Jane Birkin, who passed away yesterday at the age of 76 in Paris, was most famous for inspiring one of fashion’s most coveted accessories – the Hermes Birkin bag - and for the vocals in 1969’s provocative hit Je t’aime…moi non plus.
Although she was London born and raised, Birkin moved to France in the 1960s (after her first marriage aged 17 to composer John Barry ended) and the country adopted her — yesterday French president Emmanuel Macron described her as “a French icon”.
