Friday quotes - Brigitte Bardot

"I've been very happy, very rich,very beautiful, much adulated,very famous and very unhappy"
Brigitte Bardot(b. 1934)

French actress, model, singer and international sex symbol Brigitte Bardot was one of the most beautiful and iconic women in the world.

At eighteen she married film director Roger Vadim and four years later caused a scandal when he cast her in And God Created Woman.  

Russell Young and a little bit more of Liz

Elizabeth Taylor"Gold"Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen62 x 48 inches
I was reading Little Augury's excellent blog the other day and saw the amazing pink screen print of Elizabeth Taylor below.  I would love something like this on my wall so I looked up the artist.  I knew Russell Young the photographer from being in the music business years ago but hadn't realised

The Bardot look and thinking about holidays

Picture from Miss Peelpants
I love this shot of Brigitte Bardot.  She always makes me think of the South of France and holidays.  It's a bit of a random post today because I'm still laid up with a cold (boys would call it flu, but it's not).  I'm having some quite mental, vivid dreams but not hallucinating like proper flu.  Last time I had flu I dreamt that I'd slept with Laurence Llewellyn

Pictures I love

Salvador and Gala Dali

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman

Photography by Steven MeiselClaudia Schiffer

cPhotography by Phillipe HalsmanBrigitte Bardot

Photography by Phillipe HalsmanMarilyn Monroe

Photography by Phillipe HalsmanDuke and Duchess of Windsor

Photography by John SwannellJohn Gielgud
I'm running around doing appointments today so here's a random collection of pictures I like.

Pictures I love

Brigitte Bardot

Photography by Mario TestinoKate Moss

VerushkaWhat a great dog walking outfit


George HarrisonMy favourite Beatle


I don't know who this is but I love her hippie chick look

Pattie Boyd and George HarrisonCheck out Pattie's eyes in this one


Hedy LamarrThat is quite a hat


Hedy LamarrI love this headpiece from Zeigfield Girl, 1940


VerushkaTiara by Giorgio Sant Angelo,

The Bardot pose

Photographer unknownBrigitte Bardot c. 1960


Photography by Nino MunozGisele, 2010


Photographer unknownLindsay Lohan, 2006

Red lips and gap teeth

Photography by Mert Atlas and Marcus Piggott
This amazing picture of model Lindsey Wixson's lips is in this month's W magazine.  The make up artist responsible for enhancing Lindsay's lips is the super talented Lucia Pieroni who also did the make-up for the Vogue cover featuring Vanessa Paradis below.  
The credits for the five different shades of lipstick Lucia used to get this intense colour

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty

"I feel fine and comfortable with myself,but not because I'm beautiful"
Monica Bellucci(b. 1964)




"Beauty opened all the doors;it got me things I didn't even know I wanted,and things I certainly didn't deserve"
Janice Dickinson(b. 1955)




"I have been very happy, very rich,very beautiful, much adulated,very famous and very unhappy"
Brigitte Bardot(b. 1934)




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