“I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.”
-Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot is one of my ultimate style icons and inspirations.  While Marilyn is undoubtably the queen of the blonde bombshells I would say personally that I am even more inspired by the golden haired goddess that is Brigitte Bardot.

Bardot was a French actress, model, singer and sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.  She starred in 47 films (including And God Created Woman and Viva Maria!), recorded over 60 songs, was featured in hundreds of magazines and wrote 5 books.  Bardot is also considered one of the first and most liberated women of post-war France and in Simone de Beauvoir’s 1959 essay The Lolita Syndrome Bardot was referred to as a ‘locomotive of women’s history’.  In her later years Bardot become a strong voice for the animal rights movement and in 1986 she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.

When I look at images of Brigitte Bardot or watch her films I am always struck by a beautiful sadness in her eyes.  There is a darkness behind her light; a smouldering beauty that is at once so complex and yet effortless.  Her captivating appeal is so much more than her physical appearance and extends to her movements, her expressions and of course her beautiful french tongue.  If you enjoy watching foreign films I recommend you check out a few of my personal favourite BB movies, Two Weeks in September and The Vixen.