In 1984, Hermes named one of its handbags after her, after she complained to a former chief executive that she could not find a leather bag that could fit all she needed as a young mother. The Birkin became an eye-wateringly expensive and sought-after status symbol.
Jane Birkin, the British-born singer and actor who became a style icon in her adopted France, has died, a source close to her said on Sunday . She was 76.
With no suspicious elements found on her body or in the apartment, no investigation was to be opened, the source added.Birkin was catapulted to fame through her turbulent relationship with legendary singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg and her heavily accented French, which became one of her signatures in her adopted home.
Birkin remained forever associated with Gainsbourg, who continued to write songs for her after their split "Unimaginable to live in a world without your light in it," singer Etienne Daho, one of her close friends, wrote on Instagram. "There was something about her that touched the French spirit," artist and embroiderer Jenny Hunt told AFP outside the house Birkin once shared with Gainsbourg in Paris.Born in London, Birkin crossed the Channel in 1968 at the age of 22 to star in a film alongside Gainsbourg, who was 18 years her senior.
She moved to France after meeting Gainsbourg on the set of a romantic comedy in which he was her co-star.The musical and romantic relationship between Gainsbourg and Birkin was famously tempestuous.
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