"And God Created Woman, the title of the 1956 film that made Brigitte Bardot a global star, is the phrase that captures the magic of her. Bardot had an allure that was dazzling in its glamour, yet so natural that to gaze on it felt like a gift from the heavens."
"in 1959 she seemed to sing of the nostalgic, apple pie femininity with which Christian Dior had recently bewitched the world in his New Look of the late 1940s. But there was also a wildness to her. The gap-toothed smile was all wine and Gauloises. The off-the-shoulder necklines that came to be named for her made her look as if she was wrapped loosely in a towel or a bedsheet, rather than fully dressed."
"Her signature look one that she always said she could do better and faster than any Hollywood hairstylist was the choucroute, a half-up-half-down style. A loosened, bedroomy take on the English beehive or the French chignon it was sophisticated without being uptight, scene-stealing while apparently effortless. Bardot's beauty is often described as feline. She was as much big cat as sex kitten, making leopard print one of her style signatures."
Brigitte Bardot combined dazzling glamour with a naturalness that made her presence seem heavenly. She became a symbol of postwar France, merging Gallic cultural heritage with Parisian Bohemian energy of the 1950s and 60s. She favored gingham, famously wearing a pink gingham wedding dress at her second marriage in 1959, and recalled the nostalgic femininity of Christian Dior’s New Look. A wild edge accompanied her sweetness: a gap-toothed, wine-and-Gauloises smile and off-the-shoulder necklines that suggested casual dishabille. Her signature choucroute hairstyle was a relaxed, half-up-half-down style that looked sophisticated without stiffness. Leopard print and bold car coats completed a look equal parts feline and provocative.
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