From her early years as being described as a “shy English girl” Jane Birkin certainly came out of her shell. However, controversies came and went in a hurry in the 1960s as things seemed to happen in an adrenalised surge and the life of Jane Birkin is almost a paradigm of that. She was cast in her French cinema debut and soon enough she was at a party where the part-troubadour, part-human-smoke-machine Serge Gainsbourg was on the prowl. When he schmoozed over to Birkin, the controversial undertones from her first chapter of life would bleed through onto the next pages. “Jealousy drove me to perform the song,” Birkin tells Vogue.

Source: The Times December 14, 2021 10:00 UTC