“Unimaginable to live in a world without your light”. On Instagram, Etienne Daho was one of the first to react after the sad announcement this Sunday of the death of Jane Birkin at 76. Fan turned confidant, he had worked with her on the album Oh ! Sorry you were sleeping…in 2020, a particularly intimate opus.
Since then, tributes have multiplied to celebrate the memory of the singer and muse of fashion. “Today, we are losing a total icon whose accent could whisper to us the hymns of an era as well as defend his commitments on the international scene: solidarity, the reception of migrants, the fight against extreme right, freedom,” welcomed Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak.
“So funny, so smart, so fragile, so generous, if anything! »
Sheila, Patrick Bruel, Benjamin Biolay have also saluted the memory of Jane Birkin. “When you are so pretty, so fresh, so spontaneous, with a child’s voice, you have no right to die,” said actress Brigitte Bardot in a statement sent to AFP, saluting an artist “eternal in our hearts”. “So funny, so smart, so fragile, so generous, if anything! “, wrote on Twitter the actor Pierre Richard, who formed with her, on the screen, an often whimsical couple.
On France info, Line Renaud remembered this “tremendous kindness” that the singer exuded. “She was very, very simple, very low-key. If she could get behind the wall, she would have,” she said.
The fashion world also saluted this Sunday the memory of the one who gave her name to a bag from the Hermès brand, among the most expensive in the world. The creator of Balmain, Olivier Rousteing evoked the disappearance of an “icon”, whose style alternating between bohemian chic and sexy transparent dresses served as inspiration to many.