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1946 – Born in Paris in 1934, Brigitte had originally trained as a ballet dancer. After appearing in several fashion shows and in magazines, she was approached for a film role.

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1954 – With flowers at her waist and elegant elbow-length gloves, she was the picture of demure femininity at the Cannes Film Festival.

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FIFTIES – Her love of the South of France – and St Tropez in particular – put Riviera chic on the style agenda.

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FIFTIES – A young Bardot poses on the beach in the South of France.

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MAY 1956 – During the Cannes Film Festival, Brigitte took time to paddle in the Mediterranean wearing a full-skirted dress.

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OCTOBER 1956 – Ahead of her presentation to Queen Elizabeth II, Bardot spent time practicing her curtsey in a Chinese-inspired dress.

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OCTOBER 1956 – Bardot met Queen Elizabeth at the royal screening of The Battle of the River Plate. She dressed up in an embroidered satin dress and long white gloves.

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FEBRUARY 1958 – The 23-year-old star arrived in the Italian ski resort of Cortina D'Ampezzo to recuperate after an operation.

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1958 – Brigitte and Serge Gainsbourg starred together in Voulez-Vous Danser Avec Moi. In this scene, Bardot’s curves are accentuated with a full gingham skirt.

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FIFTIES – She posed for this portrait wearing a Lolita-esque, accidentally-sexy striped jumper – and nothing else.

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DECEMBER 1958 – She wore a silk taffeta and tulle dress for the Maria Callas gala at the Paris Opera House.

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JANUARY 1960 – She gave birth to her only son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier in January 1960, six months after her wedding to French actor Jacques Charrier. After the couple’s divorce in 1962, the child was raised by the Charrier family and did not resume a relationship with his mother until adulthood.

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AUGUST 1960 – Aside from acting and dancing, she also played the guitar, and released albums in Europe. Here, she is pictured relaxing between takes on the film set of The Truth.

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DECEMBER 1961 – For the filming of a new television show, she adopted an androgynous look in a grey suit and matching top hat – but added a touch of femininity with a camellia in her lapel.

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1962 – Brigitte posed in her underwear for this portrait on the set of A Very Private Affair.

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1963 – In a look reminiscent of the Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2011-12 collection, she attended a press conference with Anthony Perkins – with whom she starred in The Ravishing Idiot.

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MAY 1965 – When she arrived back in France following filming of Viva Maria, a Western that also starred Jeanne Moreau, she emerged wearing a huge sombrero that she had bought on location in Mexico.

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1965 – For the Cannes Film Festival, she chose to wear a neat, figure-hugging dress.

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SIXTIES – Making the most of her background as a dancer, she posed for this picture wearing ballet shoes, fishnet tights and a leotard.

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1965 – In their film Viva Maria, Bardot and Jeanne Moreau star as a vaudeville singer and a former terrorist who accidentally invent the strip tease and also start a revolution.

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1967 – Her tousled blonde mane was as much the star of Two Weeks in September as she was. That roughed-up, bed-head look became her trademark and is emulated even now by the likes of Kate Moss, Georgia Jagger and Blake Lively.

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1969 – She worked an all-white ensemble (with some statement shades) for a scene in The Bear and the Doll, in which she starred with Jean-Pierre Cassel.

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1968 - Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg wrote and performed the French song Bonnie & Clyde. They posed as the infamous couple to promote the song.

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SIXTIES – She posed as a beach Goddess in the Sixties. With black smokey eyes, dreadlocks, multiple layered necklaces and a headscarf, her look calls to mind that of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.

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1968 – She posed for this provocative portrait wearing nothing but suggestively undone trousers and her signature smokey eyes.

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DECEMBER 1968 – Wearing a tartan mini to board a flight from Paris to London with then boyfriend Patrick Gilles, who was 10 years her junior. The couple got together following the breakdown of Bardot’s marriage to Gunter Sachs but they broke up in the winter of 1970, when Bardot took up with an Alsatian barman from Courchevel– who was also 10 years her junior.

Bardot has been married four times: to Roger Vadim (1952-57), to Jacques Charrier (1959-62), Gunter Sachs (1966-69), and to Bernard d'Ormale - to whom she has been married since 1992.

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1970 – Wearing a short, striped, drop-waisted dress, she was pursued by the paparazzi as she left the Forum Hotel in Rome.

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1971 – She starred with Claudia Cardinale (Italy’s answer to Bardot), in the comedy Western Les Petroleuses. The film made the most of Bardot’s curves, dressing her in tight-waisted, bosom-lifting corsets.

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1971 – Bardot appeared in The Rum Runners, a Prohibition-era story set in the Caribbean, with Lino Ventura. The costumes for the film saw her dressed in a number of maritime-themed ensembles.

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1973 – She starred in the controversial Don Juan, or If Don

Juan Were a Woman with Jane Birkin. It was the second last

film that she appeared in.

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