It was resolutely not love at first sight
, that to picture it retrospectively is to watch a flickering series of film stills in one’s mind. Enter the young British actress in 1970s Paris, basket swinging nonchalantly from one arm, baby daughter clasped carefully in the other, dancing down Boulevard Saint-Germain with the thoughtful French musician’s adoring figure at her side.
Before Birkin took to carrying the eponymous tote designed for her by Hermès – as the story goes, she upended her hand luggage while attempting to stow it in the overhead compartment on a flight and so took to complaining about the absence of pockets in her chosen bag, when the man seated next to her revealed himself to be the chief executive of the luxury brand and offered to design one for her – Birkin’s bag of choice was a large wicker basket, in which she collected trinkets on her...
Both Birkin and Gainsbourg possessed fiery temperaments; when they fought, they did so vigorously and publicly. On one such occasion in Paris bar Castel, enraged by Gainsbourg’s rifling through her basket to expose the sordid items at the bottom of it, Birkin picked up a custard tart and flung it furiously in his face before chasing him down Boulevard St Germain.
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