[ ANNA KARINA ]

Streetstyle inspiration of today: ANNA KARINA.
Born and raised in Denmark, she hitch-hiked to Paris as a naive 17-year-old where she was swiftly snatched up by the fashion industry and began making a name for herself as a model. It was back in those early days when Anna, then Hanne Karin Bayer, was christened by Coco Chanel. As she explained in an article with Interview magazine in 2001, Coco had told her "you’ve got to call yourself Anna Karina." Her fate was sealed.Anna soon captured the hearts of prominent Parisians Pierre Cardin, Serge Gainsbourg and most notably, pioneer and French New Wave Auteur Jean-Luc Godard, whom she would marry. Together the pair produced nouvelle vague masterpieces like Pierrot Le Fou and Alphaville. Anna's outfits both on and off-screen represented a girlie, distinctly French style which would become synonymous with the 60s New Wave fashion movement.
... she is still a true inspiration to me.