You might know her name from the extremely hard-to-buy Hermès bag, but Jane Birkin, who has died at 76yo, was more than a style-setter… Born in London, she moved to Paris at 22yo and became a cultural fixture and fashion icon of the city. Along with her own music projects, she features on the saucy hit Je t’aime… moi non plus with her music producer partner, Serge Gainsbourg. And across her life that was guided by her adventurousness, Birkin was also a film and theatre actress and playwright. The cause of Birkin’s death has not been confirmed, but reports have mentioned a stroke in September 2021 and a broken shoulder in March last year. Following the news of her death, French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that Birkin was “a French icon.”