#暑期创作大赛#
Author丨Lu Lu
On July 16, 2023, 76-year-old Jane Birkin was found in her apartment in Paris with no vital signs and, so far, unknown cause of death.
This sad news swept through France at once, and the whole people were shocked.
Jane Platinum and daughter
You may think that this English name is too long to remember, or this personal name is very unfamiliar, but if I say: Jane Birkin is the platinum of Hermes platinum bag, I guess no one does not know!
Yes, the creative director of Hermès at the time was inspired by Jane Platinum to create the platinum bag that women around the world dreamed of.
However, in fact, Jane Platinum is very unwilling to see this most sought-after and hottest bag named after her surname, not only will fill her platinum bag with sundries, go shopping on the street, and even use it to raise cats.
There was even a time when, in support of the Animal Protection Association's commitment to ban crocodile skin, leading women protested to Hermès, refusing Hermès to continue using her surname.
She is not just a singer or actress of yesteryear, she is a goddess who grew up in the temple of the gods in the hearts of the French! Also known as the "most French British woman" by the French media, otherwise, who can make Hermès with eyes on the top of her head hang her eyes?
Big mouth, plate teeth, messy bangs and long hair, and always carrying a bamboo basket, this is about Jane Platinum's most standard look.
However, it is this Look, which has become a French-style master to this day, and is still influencing generations of women.
In the last decade of her life, Jane Platinum has been battling patients, and in 1998 and 2021, she was found to have cancer, and in September 2021, she had a major stroke.
On July 16, the media photographed Jane Platinum's two daughters, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, leaving their mother's apartment with a gloomy expression.
Jane Platinum's funeral will take place on July 24, small, intimate and by invitation only to family and friends.
From the little model who came to France to mess around, to the goddess of literature and art who shocked the world and never succeeded, Jane Platinum's life is really wonderful, and why did Hermès make a leather bag named after her?
Today, let's remember our goddess: Jane Platinum.
Today, there is no woman who does not recognize this bag, and there is no woman who does not recognize this bright orange.
This several times set the world leather bag auction record, the world's most expensive, so that women all over the world can scream in their dreams, the climax of the thing, is: Hermes platinum bag.
HERMES BIRKIN
BUT WHY DID HERMÈS NAME ITS SKY-HIGH LEATHER BAG WITH "PLATINUM BIRKIN"? Is it because platinum is expensive? Isn't that called a "diamond bag" more expensive?
In fact, this is not the case!
As the most valuable luxury brand "Hermes", it has two handbags that women around the world dream of: Kelly and Birkin.
Although, fashion insiders can name more than ten differences in one breath, for us ordinary people, these two handbags look a bit alike, both are large and a little square, and there is a belt-like lock.
The easiest way to distinguish between two straddles is Birkin and a single handle is Kelly.
This can also explain why, in general, Birkin is more expensive than Kelly, make an extra handle, and sew it on, how much more time does it take for French workers? How much more process to add?
Pink girl Moe, with Birkin on the left and Kelly on the right
Once, a girl told me, "When I have the money, I'll buy a Birkin and carry it to work." Look at whoever is not pleasing to the eye, smash whom! That's called power! ”
I can fully understand the workplace pressure she desperately needs to vent, but in terms of the original design, Birkin is not meant to bluff people at work. It is better to bluff people at work and take the princess bag Kelly.
Birkin is the luxury version of the mother's bag, with a huge capacity for feeding bottle diapers and grocery shopping.
Of course, there is money and willfulness, to the level of being able to carry Birkin and smash people, and doing everything is right.
So the photo below is the right way to use Birkin!
Babies who have seen the photo, please don't be struck by the old lady's appearance, she is what I have to say: Jane Birkin.
She was carrying her old Birkin "unkemptly", not caring at all.
Her exact words were: Birkin should be carried like this, if a handbag can't be kicked around, what's the point?
She once had four Birkin, all from Hermes, which she hadn't bought, and she hadn't wanted to.
Each one was covered with stickers she had collected from around the world, and once contained her cat.
In 2015, when it was popular in the world, it was painted green and went to the door of Hermès to hold up a sign demanding the protection of crocodiles.
Who has Hermes taken care of, and who has she been afraid of? You love to stand or not, I sell goods as usual, and the distribution quota is high.
Finally, it was this wrinkled, smiling, and slightly interstoothed old lady who wrote a letter asking that the words "Birkin Croco" be removed from the platinum wrap.
Hermès executives immediately responded, trying to clarify that Hermès and crocodiles have long-term stability, and the two sides have established a good cooperative relationship on the basis of friendship.
There is only one reason why the Hermès executive, who lives at the top of the luxury pyramid, can respond, and that is the name of this little old lady: Jane Birkin.
Not a coincidence of the same name! The platinum bag was designed for her, so she used her Birkin's last name!
So when women all over the world worship platinum bags as gods and kiss dust, only she Jane Birkin can be completely relieved and restore Birkin's design to its original meaning: milk powder, diapers, cats, grocery shopping, and other messy things.
She has had four Birkin bags, all of which have now been auctioned off, and buying a platinum bag is more meaningful than valuable!
How could cute Mars design such a valuable handbag for this wrinkled old lady?
In this world, all the strange stories have their own ins and outs. The story is like this!
First of all, the old lady also had a spring, and she was like this.
Jane Birkin is now often referred to as a French actress, when in fact she is British. His father was a major commander in the British Royal Navy, and his mother was an artist and director, and his family conditions were superior from an early age.
She became an actress from a very young age, starring in "Blow up" at the age of 19, which made her famous and appeared in the film industry.
She and John Barry, a British composer who once composed music for the movie 007, married in 1965, quickly gave birth to a daughter, and quickly divorced.
In 1968, Jane Birkin, who knew nothing French, decided to enter France, and she went to Paris to audition for Slogan.
22-year-old Jane Birkin, young like a cranberry with morning dew, with her innocent girlish face, a big gap between her teeth when laughing, and a different British woman's style from French women, suddenly conquered the heart of director Pierre Grimblat.
The male protagonist of "Slogan" is Serge Gainsbourg, the ugliest, decadent, indulgent, rebellious, chaotic, talented and attractive in all of France, a man who has a god-like position in the history of French art from the sixties to the present day.
When Gainsbourg died in 1991, the Elysee Palace, the French presidential palace, lowered the flag to half-mast to observe a moment of silence for him. You must know that since ancient times, literati must be light, and in France, where there are more artists than raindrops, there are only artists who can get this treatment.
Gainsbourg, this old man who looks like nothing but it!
When Jane Birkin first met Gainsbourg, the two of them, because of the language barrier, were initially a little out of place.
And, since 1968, when Gainsbourg, the ugly goddess of iron-sucking stones, met Brigitte Bardot, the national sexy goddess of France, the two have been separated and entangled.
At the time, Brigitte Bardot was married and her husband was super rich, and Gainsbourg, although he had begun to become famous, was just a decadent musician in the mixed world.
Brigitte Bardot
At one point, because of the mutual coldness of the male and female protagonists, even affecting the shooting speed of "Slogan", how Jane Birkin, who was new to Paris, could get Gainsbourg's recognition became a serious question about the future!
Fortunately, God has given her beauty and charm, and even more luckily, beauty has always been Gainsbourg's most irresistible weakness!
There are many versions of the story, romantic version, erotic version, scheming version...
However, there is only one fact, and that is when Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin accepted the director's request to have dinner in order to integrate and get to know each other better, a dinner turned into a ten-year marriage.
If what keeps them together is this movie called "Slogan", then what makes them a hurtful song that achieves their status as gods in the French art scene:
《I love you... Me neither》。
In fact, this song was originally written by Gainsbourg to his goddess Brigitte Bardot. But Brigitte Bardot was married, and at that time, Brigitte Bardot was already a Top 1 sexy goddess in France and even Europe, and the position of big sister was unmatched.
It is said that when Brigitte Bardot and Gainsbourg recorded the song in the studio, the studio was afraid to listen and was full of moans. It was quickly reported by passers-by to Brigitte Bardot's rich husband at the time.
Later, Brigitte Bardot was pressured by his family and agency to not include the song on the album.
So Gainsbourg recorded the song with new love Jane Birkin, which was officially released in 1969.
You must know that in France in 1969, there were sparkling student movements everywhere, and the excited young people thought of sabotage and provocation. This song was clearly banned and sold millions that year! This sales, at that time in France, and even in the world, was a miracle! Then it is naturally God who works miracles!
I will add this song below, and when it was released in 1969, it was banned in many countries. Because the song is full of specious gasps, Jane Birkin's voice is very fragile, even close to a child's voice.
Everyone is welcome to find a quiet time in the dead of night and listen with headphones.
JE T Music: Serge Gainsbourg; Jane Birkin - Rivedroite Chan
Click on the card above to enjoy
No one knows whether Jane Birkin is too big or too scheming, anyway, this song that her love rival does not want has established her position as the "wife of God" for the rest of her life.
She married Gainsbourg in 1968, divorced in 1980, and had a daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, the second generation of stars born with a golden spoon, and a well-known woman in the French art scene!
In 1980, Jane Birkin and Gainsbourg divorced peacefully for a variety of reasons, including Gainsbourg's alcoholism and said to be prone to domestic violence.
Jane Birkin and Gainsbourg also remained very close friends after their divorce until Gainsbourg's death in 1991!
In 1982, Jane Birkin and another famous and great French director, Jacques Doillon, gave birth to her third daughter, Lou Doillon.
Jane Birkin和Lou Doillon
Well, speaking of now, Hermès is finally coming.
On one occasion in 1981, Jane Birkin flew from Paris to London. Because the youngest daughter Lou was just born, a lot of things were stuffed in the bag, and when stuffing it into the top compartment of the plane, it fell off.
As she picked it up, she complained to the passengers sitting next to her, why didn't any brand think of a bag that could stuff all the children's products into it and was well-made for mothers. Should mothers live outside of fashion?
Seeing this, we can rest assured, it turns out that mothers all over the world love to complain, not only us Chinese mothers!
At that time, Jane Birkin was the goddess of all Europe, and everyone knew it, but she did not know the unassuming man sitting next to her.
But I think it's not bad to be able to do first class. Well, the first class is made up by my brain, otherwise do you think the goddess and the president of the Hermes Group can sit in the economy class that cannot be refunded or exchanged?
Sitting next to the goddess that day was Jean Louis Dumas, the fifth generation president of Hermès Group, who seems to be very good at listening to and collecting consumer feedback.
In 1984, the Hermès Group introduced a leather bag that was bigger, deeper and could hold more things than the classic Kelly, and the Hermès Group used the name Birkin, which is where the platinum bag came from!
Since the platinum bag has become the most expensive bag in the world, all kinds of stars, Shuyuan is very loved, in the hearts of women, it has become a kind of life!
One of the most famous passages is about the sentence of the clerk in "Sex and City":
"It's not a bag, it's a Birkin."
Victoria Beckham is said to have more than a hundred Birkins that have been photographed in a variety of colors.
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I will not list other people's street photos, otherwise three thousand photos will not be able to put down, the fanaticism of women.
Birkin has become a must-have for women to show off their wealth today! Some people even say that a woman without Birkin will only live in vain in this life!
But there is some irony that the Jane Birkin, who was tailor-made for her, real, and original, has pursued nature and simplicity all her life, without a hint of money.
A white shirt, wide-legged jeans, plus a bamboo basket, the feeling of an eternal twenty-year-old girl, is the real Birkin!
In fact, a thousand mountains walk through, thousands of waters flow, only those who are truly clear in their bones can become artists remembered by future generations.
In fact, paper is intoxicated, the world is cold and warm, only the soul fits, can it become tacit understanding and warm the heart!
This article, written to us forever Birkin, no taste of money, is the most priceless amazement in this life!
Lu Lu: A master of fashion in France with two daughters, a writer, an elegant female self-media walking in the middle of the rift between Eastern and Western cultures. The new book "30s in Time" and "Only with Strength and Confidence" are selling well.