Like mother, like daughter. Like Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg can boast of being a true style icon. A heavy fashion heritage that helped her shape her look, carried by a very specific piece.
Daughter of emblematic figures of music and style – the very famous Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin – Charlotte was born to be in the game. At 54, the Franco-British grew up with models of success who still inspire the general public decades later.
If she has managed to build her own stylistic identity, based on a chic Parisian spirit and an androgynous silhouette that she accepts more today; like all little girls, the artist has long wanted to be like her mother Jane Birkin. An eternal style icon, Serge’s former partner has been at the origin of great fashion classics since the 70s. Her youngest daughter has obviously not escaped her fashion aura. On the show’s couch Fashion NeurosisCharlotte confides in this fashion admiration that she has had for her mother since her very first steps.
When Bella Freud, host of the podcast, asks him the first piece of clothing that obsessed her as a child, the interpreter of the title “Deadly Valentine” responds immediately and almost instinctively: “I think they were, without hesitation, my mother’s jeans. Because I wanted to be her, really (…) and I was so far from it. My figure was different. But she always made me feel that I was beautiful. I tried to wear his jeans but they didn’t fit as well.”
Among his favorite jeans, two pieces with a very precise cut: “I can see my mother in the ’70s when she wore these jeans. She wore two different pairs of jeans. One of them, in the ’70s, was a flare, it was so authentic. But also, in ‘Je t’aime moi non plus,’ the movie that my father did with her, she wears a very different cut of jeans than this one, and it looks so beautiful on her.”
In what amounts to a therapy session, she continues her tender confessions, without filter: “Denim is still an obsession today.” What she looks for above all in this wardrobe essential? “The right color. The right mix of colors. Nothing is better than having raw denim jeans and seeing them evolve into worn denim, but all in a natural way.”
