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The Original It Girl: What Jane Birkin Can Teach Us About Fame, and Influence

The Original It Girl: What Jane Birkin Can Teach Us About Fame, and Influence

Update: 2025-10-07
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Jane Birkin invented effortless cool before Instagram, before influencers, before French-girl chic was even a thing. But behind the Birkin bag and the famous love affairs was a woman battling depression, heartbreak, and the relentless pressure of being an icon.


Journalist Marisa Meltzer joins me to talk about her new book It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin, which peels back the myth to reveal the real Birkin: fragile yet magnetic, self-doubting yet endlessly stylish. We explore why her aesthetic still defines generations of women, how her personal struggles shaped her art, why she continues to haunt our cultural imagination and the surprising ways Birkin’s legacy speaks directly to our influencer-saturated world today.




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The Original It Girl: What Jane Birkin Can Teach Us About Fame, and Influence

The Original It Girl: What Jane Birkin Can Teach Us About Fame, and Influence

Jo Piazza