How Jane Birkin became fashion’s most complicated icon

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Decades before she became a mythical, ubiquitous image on moodboard platforms like Pinterest and Tumblr, Jane Birkin was an artist. Despite her talents beyond fashion, the doe-eyed, wispy-fringed Londoner quickly became a visual synonym for French-girl style. Perhaps it was because she seemed to be playing herself in the roles she took on – as a plucky teen model in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up,hellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (17 images)nbsp;