Who is it? I love beautiful sixties Brigitte Bardot and her crazy big hairdo! Which women do not want the big hair? She’s still an inspiration for the fashion industry, celebrities (Kate Moss, Sienna Miller), and also for me. Nowadays you see her style everywhere: the blond big hair (also known as, the choucroute hairstyle) and the black eyeliner. Bardot also brought the ‘Bardot neckline’ into fashion, The ‘Bardot neckline’ named after her is a term for wearing shirts and dresses with necklines that expose the collar bone and both shoulders. This style was especially used for jumpers and knitted sweaters. Although she’s now seventy-seven years old, she still wears her signature make up to this day.

Why Brigitte? She is not only a beautiful woman and one of the best-known sex symbols of the sixties, she was also an actress, model, singer and an animal rights activist. In 1959, philosopher Simone de Beauvoir wrote an essay with Bardot as subject. She wrote about the Lolita Syndrome, which says that Bardot is the ‘locomotive of women’s history’ and declared her the first and most liberate woman of post-war France.

Bardot is well known for her controversial ideas and since 1990 she has been fined five times for inciting racial hatred. I do not agree with her ideas, except for using her fame to promote animal rights. I find it inspiring that she believes in her self, and that she is not afraid of what people think of her.