{"id":375242,"date":"2025-12-29T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375242\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:16:12","slug":"the-prickly-politics-and-passions-of-brigitte-bardot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375242\/","title":{"rendered":"The prickly politics and passions of Brigitte Bardot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Long before words like \u201cFrench Girl Chic\u201d became algorithmically entrenched in online shopping guides and mood boards, the late French film starlet Brigitte Bardot created the blueprint for what was once a fresh and exciting style of dressing. Her tousled blonde bouffant, bikinis and capri pants signaled a more casual, laissez-faire attitude to dressing \u2014 eschewing formal, buttoned up silhouettes for an effortlessly \u2018thrown together\u2019 look that became synonymous with the swinging sixties and sexual liberation.\n <\/p>\n

\n The fashion world soon wrapped its arms around Bardot\u2019s style \u2014fueled by the booming post-war movie industry, which made her a global star \u2014 and quickly turned her singular look into an oversaturated trend that we continue to see referenced and replicated many decades later.\n <\/p>\n

\n The French Girl look has been coveted by women all over the world. Catlike eye-liner, off-the-shoulder necklines (often referred to as the \u201cBardot neckline\u201d), babydoll dresses and messy beehives have been seen on the likes of Sienna Miller, Alexa Chung, Cara Delevingne and Kate Moss throughout their own successful careers.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Bardot\u2019s overarching legacy may not be as easy to define as her personal style. While she was a celebrated cultural icon who has left an indelible mark on fashion history, she was also perhaps an early prototype for the Trump-era pin-up.\n <\/p>\n

\n Her politics leaned heavily towards the right. In 1992, she married Bernard d\u2019Ormale, a former advisor to Jean-Marie Le Pen \u2014 founder of France\u2019s far-right National Front party. She was convicted five times for inciting racial hatred, oftentimes directed at the Muslim community, and was publicly dismissive of the #MeToo movement and feminism, preferring to focus her philanthropic efforts on the rights of animals over women.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Despite her conservative values, Bardot was seen as a titillating talent and was often cast in scandalous roles, such as her breakout film \u201cAnd God Created Woman\u201d (1956) where she played a sexually uninhibited teenaged orphan. Her off-screen fashion choices, too, the low-slung necklines, unkempt hair and bare legs, cemented her as France\u2019s \u201csex kitten\u201d \u2014 a term coined specifically for Bardot.\n <\/p>\n

\n Instead of being at odds with her politics, her sensuality was seen as a break from the prudent conservative aesthetic, similar to the hyper-feminine, possibly right-wing-coded beauty ideals exemplified by celebrities such as Sydney Sweeney<\/a> today.\n <\/p>\n

\n Bardot was certainly not a trad wife \u2014 she was married four times though preferred the hedonism of Cannes to wholesome homemaking \u2014 but she might be who today\u2019s trad wives want to emulate while on their honeymoons in Europe.\n <\/p>\n

\n Scroll on to take a deep dive into Bardot\u2019s enduring, covetable style.\n <\/p>\n

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