First name
Charlotte
Of course there is evidence of a talent, discovered as a teenager in a first generational film, The Effrontee. We discovered her pouting pout, the delicate hairline of her silhouette, the beginnings of a promising fire under the ice and her dizzying silences, 100% wild self, brandished to extinguish the media curiosity that goes hand in hand with a celebrity falling from the sky in the cradle. There is pedigree too, both gift and burden. Being the only daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, a royal couple of pop culture, an artistic tandem of genius crowned with modernity, style and transgression.
To be born an only child and to remain so, to find and assert one’s personality without letting oneself be crushed by an inheritance whose weight and brilliance could have undermined any temptation to exist by oneself, for oneself, fully. Charlotte Gainsbourg took the risk of existing.
Led by Claude Miller, Lars von Trier, Todd Haynes, Arnaud Desplechin, Yvan Attal, among others, she was able to find a place in the cinema, embodying the possibilities of all women, madly in love, stubborn, free, complex, fragile, funny, violent, strong, untwisted, seductive, resolute… A revelation on the big screen, a celluloid enchantment still personalized by a voice on a wire, blowing at point blank range which she walks with grace on the melodies of his father, Air, Beck or SebastiAn.
There is this style, finally, and this label with mysterious contours that we tirelessly stick to her: Charlotte Gainsbourg is the famous Parisian with universal influence, with this effortless allure which is “cool” on her like the blood in her veins. An inspiring equation whose spontaneous formula merges trench coat, Converse, 501 Levi’s, miniskirt on endless legs, tired T-shirt, stilettos and Saint Laurent smoking jacket next to the skin. So many young girls and women try to be like him, to steal from him that fascinating je ne sais quoi, that wrinkled flawlessness that we look back on in the street. Yes, Charlotte Gainsbourg has become an icon. She alone doesn’t know.
Bazaar Edito by Olivier Lalanne, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar France.
To be found in Harper’s Bazaar France for February 2025
Hello… After the French singer-songwriter Clara Luciani or the actress Hunter Schafer in our previous editions, the editorial team devotes its Bazaar Calling in Yseult. Find our telephone conversation with this powerful voice, who has become a pop phenomenon around the world.
Charlotte Gainsbourg. For the second time on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar France magazine, the Franco-British actress and singer opens up in a touching interview; the opportunity also to celebrate an anniversary that she herself was unaware of, that of her first role in the cinema, in Words and Music40 years ago. Under the lens of photographer Mark Kean, a fashion series is also dedicated to him tracing his style. The Gainsbourg style. This effortless look that is both cool and sexy with timeless pieces, trenches, blazers and other masculine pants in the lead, sometimes Converse on the feet, sometimes stilettos, which the muse of Anthony Vaccarello pulls off like no one else.
-Also discover in our fashion pages, winter silhouettes where knits and skin against skin flirt with natural tones, organic shapes and irresistible materials to the touch of the most beautiful accessories that play the card of sensory intoxication. Green, in all its ranges, gives pep to the season while animal prints reign supreme in wardrobes and match the shine of bags and shoes with cabochon studs and strass rhinestones galore. Like a desire to shine.
While the Marie Lichtenberg made a splash with her totem jewelry until winning the heart of Rihanna, we met the French designer who everyone is talking about, from New York to Tokyo, via Paris.
Also read, our interview with Élodie Boucheza discreet actress who is shining at the start of the year, both in the cinema and on the stage. Just like Vassili Schneider ; a real bookstore phenomenon, Next time you bite the dust by Panayotis Pascot is played until next March. Under the direction of Paul Pascot, brother of the comedian, the Franco-Canadian actor dazzles in a single enchanting scene. He answers our questions.
Literature. Bazaar went to meet Leila Slimani : with I will take away the firethe novelist signs the last part of an abundant family trilogy, and one of the most beautiful books of the winter season.
In Bazaar Spherewe also return to the sublime work of Lili Anolik, Didion and Babitz, which explores the tumultuous friendship between a superstar of American letters and a fanciful party girl and chronicler of the excesses of Hollywood, in California in the 60s and 70s.
The editorial team also shares its favorites from the winter literary season to read under the covers.
Movie theater. While Bridget Jones: very lazythe fourth opus of the franchise, finally hits the screens, the comedy definitively establishes the character played by Renée Zellweger as the standard of the blundering sentimental loser who fights the anxiety of celibacy by drinking pots of ice cream. This freewheeling anti-heroine with universal setbacks has become an icon in spite of herself. Decryption.
To listen. While he has just unveiled two new addresses, one in New York, the other in London, the essential, the hyperactive, determined and devilishly friendly jack-of-all-trades Simon Porte Jacquemus shares with us a playlist in her image: pop, solar, sensual.
Beauty. In this issue, find the best expert advice for exhibiting triumphant nudity for an evening, and more. But also 10 ways to tame UV this winter, from the wild beaches of Saint-Barth to the snow-covered massifs of Val Thorens.
Finally, we look at the phenomenon of neo-baby : too glamorous, too sexy, too low-cut… It exacerbates all the signs of femininity. Not to seduce. For fun. By sticking to the role just enough to enjoy it. Like her, her perfume makes no apologies for existing.
The non-ski slope. Let yourself be seduced by the charm of an adrenaline cure at the top of a skyscraper in Dubai or swap a mountain village for a hamlet in Provence… Between an Austrian princely residence and the English countryside, in Bazaar escapesfind all our great alternatives to winter sports.
