Style icon Jane Birkin's looks through the decades

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The British-French singer, actress and style icon may be best known as the inspiration for the Birkin bag, but she was much more than that.

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There are few things more difficult to define than the term "fashion icon," but that doesn't mean there don't exist people who definitively set the styles for their time. Jane Birkin was one of them.

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To some extent, this is unfair to the British-French actress and singer -

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Who died on Sunday in Paris at the age of 76 due to unknown reasons –

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that she is largely remembered for the luxury Hermès handbags that she took inspiration from and which was named after her.

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The influence of Ms Birkin, whom modeling agent Paul Rolland called an "eternal inspiration" on Instagram, extended well beyond clothes.

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He proved beyond a doubt that the best style stems from attitude.

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Chic may be "nothing," as opera director and designer Patrick Kinmoth once said, "but it's perfect nothing."

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Starting from the early days of her fame as a composer and wife of music artist Serge Gainsbourg, Ms. Birkin didn't always dress perfectly.

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"She has set a style example for a generation of women,"

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Designer Anna Sui on Sunday compiled a list of the elements that contributed to the extraordinary chic of the Gamine aesthetic.

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