Born in 1934, Brigitte Bardot initially started off as a dancer ... like at the Gala of Union Artists event in 1970 when she embraced a new, cropped hairstyle while wearing a top hat and tux.

So many iconic actresses from the 1940s through the 1970s were on board with this ... The most retro detail on Brigitte Bardot's bandeau bikini is the floral print. Here, she poses on the beach ...

For Coleman, whose outfits seem to have acquired a cult of their own, Shankland drew inspiration from the 1970s style of such actresses as Brigitte Bardot, Jacqueline Bisset and Dominique Sanda.

Bardot was as huge in Europe as ... As for the ravishing Brigitte, her film career sputtered out by the mid-1970s and she settled into old age as a very controversial and polarizing figure in ...