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“Serge was a great man. I was just pretty,” Jane Birkin was wont to say. But in the fashion industry, where her impact as a style icon is unmistakable, few are likely to agree.
Long before stars relied heavily on stylists and creative directors to shape their image, the British French star—who died Sunday at the age of 76—used her unique sense of dress to project a new kind of femininity and evolving notions of sexual liberation. Her…
