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Style Crush: Anna Karina

Danish actress Anna Karina was the darling of French New Wave cinema, and the muse of one of it's foremost directors Jean-Luc Godard. Karina was 17 when she arrived in Paris, and unable to speak French. Living off the streets she got a break while sitting at the cafe Les Deux Magots. She was approached by a woman from an advertisement agency who asked her to do some photos. She soon became a successful fashion model and Coco Chanel helped her come up with the name Anna Karina.

It was through modelling that Godard first set eyes on her.
She wore quite simple clothes, in a slightly dishevelled way and could look both cute and dangerous simultaneously.

Style Crush: Jean Seberg

Spring makes me want to emulate Jean Seberg's classic style, most memorable in A Bout de Souffle. I recently bought the 50th anniversary edition of the film purely for a Seberg documentary extra (I already owned a vanilla disc). She wore the cropped cut perfectly and her clothes were simple and hinted at the American starlet's affilations with Europe, especially France. Seberg's later years were marred with tragedy and I wish there were more books about her life - but perhaps that makes her all the more enigmatic.

To dress like Jean Seberg, think 50s style dresses, nautical stripes, capri pants, and a Herald Tribune t-shirt http://www.vinmag.com/online/prodshow/TS060___New_York_Herald___Breathless_Movie_T_Shirt/new-york-tribune-breathless-t-shirt.html

The ghost of a saber tooth tiger - Jardin du luxembourg

This is an acoustic version of Jardin du Luxembourg for French television. The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger are Sean Lennon and his model girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl.