Sad News Jane Birkin, singer actress and inspiration for the Birkin bag dies aged 76 Parisian of the

Jane Birkin singer actress and inspiration for the Birkin bag dies aged 76 Jane Birkin the most Parisian of the English has left us said Paris mayor and Hidalgo British actress and singer Jane Birkin was found dead at her home in Paris at the age of 76 according to French media Birkin appeared in films including Agatha Christie adaptations Evil Under the Sun and 1979’s Death on the Nile and earned a claim for her French roles and I love you I don’t La Belle noise and oscar-nominated short the Femme at Lee tge before venturing across the channel

age 22 the english-born actress appeared in the controversial 1966 Michelangelo Antonio film blow up appearing naked in a threesome sex scene she is also known for duating with her then lover French singer Serge gainsborg on 1969 track G tame moynon plus which reached number one in the UK but was banned in a number of countries due to sexual content Burkin who spent more than five decades living in France was a stalwart Ave kit for women’s rights and LGBT plus equality and Hidalgo the mayor of Paris tweeted Jane Birkin the most Parisian of the English has

left us we will never forget her songs her laughter or her incomparable accent that have always accompanied us meanwhile men

are Rawlings the British ambassador to France paid tribute to her on Twitter describing her as the most French of British artists this departure is so sad she was a beautiful person former French culture Minister Rosaline Bachelorette told bfm she is survived by two children both performers in their own right Sherlock gainsborg by gainsborg and Lou doylin by French writer director Jacques dwylen her eldest Child by composer John Berry the British fashion photographer Kate Berry died

in 2013 at the age of 46 speaking to I about the impact of her death last year she said she’s just sort of hanging around all the time it comes into your life all the time you see a flower peonies have just come out now so you know that’s what you’re going to take to the cemetery Birkin famously inspired the Birkin bag one of the world’s best known fashion statements after sharing an eventful flight with Jean Lewis Dumas of French luxury goods maker Hermes after the actress placed her bag in the overhead compartment the content

Spilled Out leaving her to limit on how difficult it was to find a suitable leather weekend bag the highly sought after bags inspired by the incident can sell for upwards of twenty thousand pounds becoming luxury status symbols and even appearing as major plot points on Sex and the City Will and Grace and Gilmore Girls Merkin originally accepted a free bag from Hermes in exchange for the use of her name but later received annual royalty payments which she gave to charity Jane Birkin actress and singer dies at 76 the British French icon shot to Fang thanks

to her relationship with Serge gainsborg and their sexually explicit song jitame Moy non plus but would go on to become a 1960s and 70s a girl and lend her name to hearn’s iconic Birkin back Jane Birkin the singer and actress who Rose to Fame in the late 1960s as the lover of French Bad Boys search games board and became a beloved figure in her adopted France has died she was 76 the French culture Minister announced the news on Sunday following reports in the Parisian newspaper and bfm television at sent Birkin had been found dead at

her home in Paris she had suffered a mild stroke in 2021 although born in London Birkin would find Fame singing in French and her do it with gainsbow on the sexually explicit song jitame moinon plus which was banned in several countries and condemned by the Vatican made her a household name around the world the song was recorded in 1968 just months after the pair Birkin then 22 year old and gains 440 had first met on the set of the film’s slogan forging a turbulent relationship that would last 13 years and see them become France’s most

famous couple the two whose notorious Rose once saw her fling herself into the river sane after throwing a custard pie in gainsborg’s face would have a daughter the actress singer and director Charlotte gainsborg who in 2021 debuted her documentary about her mother gang by Charlotte and Candace he and I became the most famous of couples in that strange way because of jitame and because we stuck together for 13 years and he went on being my best friend until the day he died Birkin told CNN in 2006 birkin’s film debut was the Michelangelo Antonio’s 1966 classic

blow up a small role noted for a full frontal scene other credits include the 1972 adaptation of death on the Nile and 1982’s Evil Under the Sun later moving to more Art House Productions she earned three Cesar nominations beginning with 1985 slow pirate thanks to her style Birkin became a major Fashion Icon and a girl of the 1970s in 1984 Hermes named its Birkin back still a highly sought after accessory four decades on after her alongside Charlotte Birkin had a daughter Kate Berry with the James Bond composer John Berry whom she married at the age

of 17 a marriage that lasted just three years Kate Berry tragically died in 2013 of apparent suicide Birkin also had another daughter the singer Lou Doolin from a relationship with French director jock Dylan