Legendary actress Brigitte Bardot led fashion revolutions throughout her career; this retrospective includes BB’s comments on her iconic style in a rare, intimate interview. Brigitte Bardot is a style icon whose legacy has undeniably shaped the face of fashion as we know it. She was discovered by a magazine editor at only 14 years old, her career blossomed as the world emerged from the ashes of World War II. She found fame and admiration on the big screen in the 1950s and then became the fiery sex symbol of the groovy and liberated 1960s. Over the course of her career, all of the great French designers—including Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain, and Pierre Cardin—outfitted Bardot on- and offscreen. In photographs that capture her attending receptions by Queen Elizabeth II and Charles de Gaulle or on glamorous visits to the United States, in fashion shoots and on film sets, or relaxing on a grassy field, this volume illustrates all the key looks that BB wore and brought to the international spotlight as she invented and edited her own highly imitated style. In an extensive—and extremely rare—interview, accompanied by her personal comments on the photographs, Bardot explains the context of the often vanguard fashions she wore, making headlines wherever she went. Evoking French style and the glamour of St. Tropez, her legacy endures—from ballerina slippers with sweeping skirts to figure-hugging knitwear, gingham fabrics and gypsy dresses, kohl eyeliner and tousled hair.

Brigitte Bardot: My Life in Fashion

Arts & Photography

Servat, Henry-Jean

Fashion

Flammarion

Parisian gallery owner, antiques dealer, and style tastemaker Pierre Passebon curates his favorite portraits of Marlene Dietrich by world-class photographers in this exquisite cloth-bound volume. Featuring rare images from Pierre Passebon’s personal collection, this volume celebrates Marlene Dietrich, Hollywood’s iconic femme fatale, as immortalized by master photographers including Edward Steichen, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Milton Greene, George Hurrell, Antony Armstrong-Jones, and others. An active participant in her photo sessions, she constructed her own unique image of charm and seduction. Dietrich’s life was devoted to glamour for over forty years: in stage performances, on screen, and in concert. The public loved her. A modern and transgressive woman, she didn’t hesitate to break the rules by dressing in menswear (she was Yves Saint Laurent’s muse for his iconic tuxedos) or by being seen in public with her husband and her lovers (both male and female). Dietrich also refused to bend to Hollywood conventions around motherhood by raising her daughter in the limelight as well.  Her beauty, style, and elegance made her the archetypal femme fatale, but it was Dietrich’s unwavering confidence, gender fluidity, and firm stand against Nazism that made her a revolutionary and an icon. This volume reveals how her fascination lies not only in the way she inspired the greatest photographers and fashion designers of her time, but in how she continues to embody the essence of glamour and female independence today.

Obsession: Marlene Dietrich: The Pierre Passebon Collection

Passebon, Pierre

Dietrich, Marlene

Humor & Entertainment

Le style Bardot

Decorative Arts & Design

Barbara, notre plus belle histoire d'amour, c'est vous.    Il suffirait de presque rien, peut-être une année de moins, pour que s'élève une dernière fois la longue dame brune. A la veille de la Sainte Catherine, jour de la fête des vierges et des martyres, Barbara est partie. Elle n'était ni l'une ni l'autre. Elle n' était, de chanson en chanson, ni tout à fait la même ni tout à fait une autre.  Discrète, secrète et réservée, elle s'est attachée, tout au long des jours de son existence, auprès de ses proches, à préserver une intimité que ceux qui l'aiment et la respectent ne veulent pas transgresser. Elle n'aimait pas son image, riait de son plumage et s'étonnait de son ramage.    Henri-Jean Servat nous livre un portrait intimiste rythmé par ses plus beaux chants qui ne sont pas les plus désespérés. De son enfance au Bel Age, à l'ascension de l'Aigle noir vers les cieux étoilés, il salue Chapeau bas, le talent et la joie de vivre de notre grande artiste.

Barbara, la dame en noir

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

ALBIN MICHEL

So chic !

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

ARCHIPEL

The best stories. A village that caresses the eye and attracted a host of artists at he turn of the twentieth century. A village whose heyday came in the middle of the 1950s, when a young Franco-Russian filmmaker brought cameras and crew to its sun dazzled beaches to make his first feature film: And God Created Woman. The shock wave created by Roger Vadim revealed a resplendent creature, a leg-end: Brigitte Bardot, rocketing to fame in the village she chose as her home, which would bask in the glory of those years forever. In its pearly haven, artists, film stars, playboys and top models would spend sun-soaked days and starry nights in affairs and adventures that have since entered the pages of history. In the Spirit of Saint-Tropez is illustrated with numerous previously unpublished photographs.

In the Spirit of St. Tropez

Photography & Video

Assouline Publishing

A is for Aga Khan... B is for Monica Bellucci.... C is for Carlton, Croisette...For decades, the sunny village of Cannes has hosted a wealth of glamour, talent, and beauty from A to Z. As the site of the most prominent international cinema contest in the world, Cannes is a magical milieu that has attracted paparazzi and film critics from the entire world. But often hidden from view are the sumptuous villas and yachts of millionaires that Cannes has been home to for more than a century.

In the Spirit of Cannes

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