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1953

Aged 18, Bardot, then a

natural brunette, attended

her first Cannes International

Film Festival baring her

collarbones. Off-the-shoulder

soon became known as the

“Bardot” neckline: “Sexy and

provocative with that neckline

I let slip off my shoulders,

it became the top top!”

1968

Filming Spirits Of The Dead. Of

wearing couture, Bardot says,

“I always hated it ... I felt I was

pretending to be someone

I wasn’t, all stiff and formal.”

1963

“I didn’t know how to

wear my hair so, on a

whim, I used a scarf as

a headband and set off

a fashion tsunami,” says

Bardot, pictured on the

set of Contempt at the

Cinecittà studios, Italy.

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