Tag: Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg Announces First New Album in 7 Years

 

Rest includes collaborations with Paul McCartney, Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and others

Charlotte Gainsbourg has announced the long-awaited follow-up to her Beck-assisted 2010 album IRM (and the 2011 compilation Stage Whisper). Rest is out November 17 via Because Music. She’s also shared the title track, which was co-written and produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Check out the song below, and scroll down to preview her self-directed music video. The album was produced by SebastiAn and features collaborations with Paul McCartney, Owen Pallett, Connan Mockasin, and others. Check out the tracklist and album artwork below.

Rest is the first Gainsbourg album where she wrote the lyrics herself. “In the shadow of my father, writing in French was something I never dared to do,” she said in a statement. Following the death of her sister, photographer Kate Barry, she said she decided to write an album about loss, public life, childhood fears, and more.

Source: Charlotte Gainsbourg Announces First New Album in 7 Years | Pitchfork

Charlotte Gainsbourg For Nars Makeup Collection

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The concept of “French-girl beauty” is one much discussed in the hair and make-up industry, but how to create a product range which perfectly encapsulates that elusive brand of insouciant Parisian chic? The answer: ask a French girl, which is exactly what make-up brand Nars has done via its upcoming collaboration with Charlotte Gainsbourg – actress, singer and daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg [ . . . ]

More: Charlotte Gainsbourg For Nars Makeup Collection | British Vogue

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Reluctant Icon Of French Chic

By Phoebe Maltz Bovy

 

Charlotte Gainsbourg — daughter of French-Jewish singer Serge Gainsbourg and English actress (and handbag namesake) Jane Birkin — continues the family tradition of combining artistic excellence with Parisian glamorousness. Gainsbourg plays an important role in Joseph Cedar’s new film, “Norman”, and is also (oh to be so chic and part-French!) promoting a makeup line with Nars. And like any self-respecting representative of Frenchwoman style, Gainsbourg shares some beauty rituals but pushes back against the whole French beauty thing.

I want to be immune to the breathless (heh) items about how to look like a Parisienne, but I click, I always click. Even if the answer — as per Gainsbourg, and as per all ten trillion articles of this type — is to wear less foundation if you wish to look more French. Well, not exactly — it’s that French ladies supposedly wear less foundation than their American equivalents. Which may well be, but I have it on good authority (the mirror) that an American woman can eschew foundation and not look even the least bit French.

Source: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Reluctant Icon Of French Chic – The Forward

Charlotte Gainsbourg Does the Opposite of Freeing the Nipple 

This weekend, Richard Gere’s political thriller Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer premieres wide in theaters. On Wednesday, the cast gathered for an intimate New York screening hosted by the Cinema Society — in addition to the film’s star Gere, actors Lior Ashkenazi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hank Azaria, and Steve Buscemi all put in appearances. Actress and consummate French cool girl Gainsbourg plays Alex Green, who NPR recently described as “a New York-based corruption investigator for the Israeli government” who encounters the titular businessman played by Gere.

At the screening, surrounded by her suited male co-stars, Gainsbourg cut a particularly striking figure in an edgy Saint Laurent ensemble, plus t-shirt, minus glitter boots. It’s a look that showed during the Spring 2017 season, the collection that marked Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent debut. (Gainsbourg herself also sat front-row at the debut.) Originally modeled by Binx Walton, the leather minidress was an especially bold look — its most notable accessory being the rhinestone heart pasty on Walton’s breast, a gesture at modesty for the cutaway design. But for Gainsbourg’s red carpet appearance, she opted for a slightly more demure take on the look, doing whatever you might call the opposite of freeing the nipple [ . . . ]

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An Evening with Jane Birkin & Charlotte Gainsbourg

Between screenings of Jacques Doillon’s La Pirate ( and Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009), actresses and mother-daughter duo Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg joined the Film Society’s Director of Programming Dennis Lim to discuss the two films, as well as their respective daring film careers.  [Film Society of Lincoln Center]