Jane Birkin was an actress and a singer who became the face of French girl beauty. In the early 1980s, she inspired the design of the iconic Hermès Birkin bag. The mother-of-three was born in 1946; ...

In the simplest terms, an It Girl is a young woman with good looks and beautiful clothes who becomes a fixture of the public sphere by virtue of being herself. It Girls are not socialites, who agitate ...

Back in July, Jane Birkin’s original Birkin bag—the bag named after the actress by Hermès that has become synonymous with wealth, glamour and unattainability—sold at auction for $10.1 million, which ...

The Birkin Bag is the ultimate status symbol: wildly expensive, ridiculously hard to get and immediately identifiable. Real Housewives collect it, hip-hop artists rap about it and “Sex and the City” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Marisa Meltzer says one of the challenges of writing It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin was making sure it wasn't ...

If you scroll the internet for more than a few minutes, there’s a good chance you’ll see a particular phrase parried about in almost every cultural pathway: It girl. Popularized by British writer and ...