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Brigitte Bardot

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QUENTIN LETTS: My friends in France say their country's ban on smoking in public will be ignored with a Gallic shrug. Will we be as defiant when it happens here?

Can this really be la belle France, which gave us such classic images as the young Brigitte Bardot smoking a cigar and Audrey Hepburn holding a cigarette holder as long as a magician's wand?

3 months ago

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: What are some celebrity-led fashion trends? Jennifer Aniston's hairstyle and Cara Delevingne's eyebrows spring to mind

Fashion owes a lot to the French actress Brigitte Bardot. A muse for Dior, Balmain, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin, in the 1950s and 1960s she pioneered several fashion trends.

‘The Köln Concert is the hit he wants to disown’: why Keith Jarrett shunned two new films about his unlikely masterpiece

His back hurt and his piano was substandard. But the musician’s improvised 1975 show entered jazz history. Now two films are celebrating that mesmerising night – and the sweary teen promoter who made…

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