Vogue looks back on the fashion legacy of original French-girl style icon Françoise Hardy, who has died at the age of 80 from cancer.
“If it weren’t for the way I dress, no one would notice me,” Françoise Hardy told a reporter in 1969. This throwaway moment of absurdité belies the impact the melancholic, yet exquisite singer had not just on fashion, but culture.
Her choppy fringe and mussed-up hair gave her an effortlessly gamine, rather than girly, air, which subsequently caught the attention of film directors curious about this “anti-Bardot” character. Just two years after signing her first music deal and releasing cute tunes, such as “Oh oh chéri”, Hardy made her cinematic debut in 1963’s Château en Suède directed by Roger Vadim, and went on to star in Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave great Masculin Féminin.
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