Today is the 80th birthday of Brigitte Bardot, the iconic French model, actress, singer (kinda, and bombshell who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s.
By the time the 70s rolled around Bardot withdrew into seclusion, then became an animal rights activist, and then a xenophobic curmudgeon. So let’s celebrate some of her earlier stuff, you know at the height of the bizarre retrofuture psychadelic affair that was the 1960s (and Serge Gainsbourg).
