There was Paco Rabanne and this robotic suit created during the tour at the Savoy in London in 1968, and about which
Françoise
Hardy
told Le Figaro in 2013 that it did not allow you to move "as long as she was rigid.
Before that, André Courrèges had put on a tunic and the legendary white boots for the set of "Dim Dam Dom", Yves Saint Laurent a black tuxedo on the occasion of a series of concerts in Germany, in
1966
. were crazy about her
, confides the photographer and friend Jean-Marie Périer, who introduced him, among others, Rabanne, the metallurgist of the seam.
To me, her beauty had no equal.
It was the most beautiful face, and the first to touch me like this.
Françoise didn't like herself, the fault of a grandmother of extraordinary hardness and a morose childhood.
She let me shape her image, because I had access to the world of fashion in the 1960s.
She hated posing for pictures, and to make her laugh, I asked my assistant to drop his pants!
But I didn't build
Françoise Hardy
, she wasn't a doll.
Moreover, over time, she took a liking to clothing.
Fifty years have passed and the photos of the artist with a melancholy look continue to feed the moodboards and Instagram accounts of many designers - Julien Dossena in the lead but also Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton, Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant at Courrèges ... "
She didn't live well with this idol label and cultivated a certain paranoia
", loose Maxime Schmitt, producer of Jacques Dutronc and
Me want you
by Françoise Hardy (1984).
“
In England, she represented France, had star status – she was compared to the Eiffel Tower.
David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan were running after him.
Here, people stopped him in the street especially to talk to him about All the Boys and Girls, or Dutronc.
Françoise Hardy
was not just a performer like most yé-yé singers, she wrote and composed.
She gave more credit to her music than to her looks.
Her style
, guided by her androgynous silhouette, also owes a lot to a taste for purity and to the fact that Jacques Dutronc hated jewelry – and that she only aspired to please her husband.
Her thick bangs?
"
A barrier, a bulwark against his shyness
", says Jean-Marie Périer.
Her signature line of sixties eyeliner?
“
She hates being told about it today!
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