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Françoise Hardy

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Jacques Dutrone and Françoise Hardy - a benchmark of impossible cool, the very embodiment of Europe's swinging, unruly 1960s🍁🍁🍁

In 1968, Françoise Hardy released her sensation album Comment te dire adieu, featuring the standout title track🌵

More than just a hit, How to Say Goodbye to You would come to mirror the delicate, complicated dance she and Jacques Dutronc performed through life - equal parts romance, independence, and a refusal to play by the rules🌹

The two first crossed paths in 1967 during a lively, wine-soaked evening — a fateful encounter that ignited a romance that would both fascinate and bewilder their fans🎍

It was pure chemistry: Françoise, the coolly ethereal 23-year-old heartbreaker, and Jacques, the 24-year-old dandy shaking up French pop with a wink, a cigarette, and a guitar slung just right🥀

Their love story, like all the best ones, was better in music than in real life. It wasn't until the arrival of their son @thomas.dutronc - now a respected singer-songwriter himself — in 1973 that they decided to move in together, famously living on separate floors to preserve a sense of mystery (or sanity). In 1981, they married - "an uninteresting formality," as Françoise once dryly put it🍀

Careers were king; personal sacrifices abundant. They drifted apart, but somehow never truly let go🌺

Even after they separated - Dutronc in Corsica, Françoise near Paris - Jacques remained, technically and perhaps a bit defiantly, Mr. Hardy. Their unique bond, built on music, mischief, and mutual respect, lasted until Françoise's heartbreaking passing this past June🌼

And Jacques? From the smoky cafés of Paris to the sun-washed calm of Corsica, he forged a legend all his own - half rebel, half crooner, always impeccably unbothered🌸

With a wardrobe as sharp as his wit and a smirk that could disarm or devastate at will, Dutronc continues to stand as a monument to French cool - slightly rumpled, fiercely independent, and forever unforgettable🌻

Via @kingsqueensofcool on Instagram🌷

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Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter (1974)

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Noelia Towers (Catalan/American, 1992) - Untitled (n.d.)

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August 1971. 'Stars and stripes all over. It's happening on the American scene.'

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I've gone fifteen years on this website without absorbing any information about homestuck and I'm not about to start now

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Larissa Bates (American, 1981) - Riding with Tight-Waist After Joseph Anton Koch's Mountain Landscape with Lake (2012)

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Georgina Grenville & Jason Fedele, Gucci Envy outtake, 1997.

by Mario Testino

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zoom magazine octobre 1977

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What Doesn’t Kill Me Better Run (2021) — Oh de Laval

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Lana saw this movie and ran with all of it spilling from her pockets

The Misfits (1961) dir. John Huston

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Mick ♥️

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Chloë Sevigny, 1998 by David Bailey

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James Dean (1931-1955)