Serge Gainsbourg: its evolution in 25 looks

Thirty years after his disappearance, Serge Gainsbourg has lost none of his aura.Focus on the looks of the one who marked his borrowing French song, but also male fashion.

Monument of French song, Serge Gainsbourg was not intended for music, however.Younger, he dreamed of a painter and will even be part of the fine arts after adolescence.Influenced by his pianist father and his mother Mezzo-Soprano, he chance begins a career in music, assuming in turn singing teacher and bar pianist.Success is coming to an end as it begins to write for others.We think in particular of "La Javanaise" interpreted by Juliette Gréco or "How to say goodbye" by Françoise Hardy.The latter is confirmed when France Gall won Eurovision in 1965 with one of his pieces, called "wax doll, his doll".From that day, France has its eyes turned towards it.The rest, we know her.Serge Gainsbourg will follow the successes with songs imbued with poetry and provocation.We think of "I love you either", sung with his partner Jane Birkin or even "Lemon Incet" the text with scandal contained with his daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg.What we remember less is his sense of almost innate style, evolving according to eras and his personal evolution.

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From Lucien Ginsburg to Gainsbarre

The one who will become famous under the pseudonym of Serge Gainsbourg was actually called Lucien Ginsburg.It was not until 1954, when he seriously plans to make a career as a singer and he deposited his titles at SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers) that he adopted a pseudonym.First Julien Gris, who will quickly evolve in Julien Grix, then, a few years later, Serge Gainsbourg.In the 1950s, when he was still only Lucien Ginsburg, bar pianist and cabaret, the musician healed his presentation, not passing the door from his home without his wave costume, his buttoned shirt to the top,her tie, varnished black shoes and her plated hair.A real dandy, who is offset when he became Serge Gainsbourg, in 1957.Longer and ruffled hair, fitted blazer jacket, open shirt and straight pants, he embodies the French class with just what it takes elegance and casualness.True to his favorite pieces, he will appear many times with his striped costume jacket, his renoma trench and his richelieu zizi signed Repetto, white with leather laces.In the 80s, Gainsbourg became Gainsbarre and his style changed again.The primed pace of the Parisian dandy disappears in favor of a more rocky, almost caricatured look.The costume pants are replaced by the washed -out jeans, the shirt opens more and suggests a golden chain.The blazer has disappeared and the beard pushed, the dark circles have dug and a cigarette is always hung on its fingers.But the white derbies are still there.He will not leave them until his death.

Serge Gainsbourg in tie costume

Serge Gainsbourg in a trench, with Chantal Goya

Serge Gainsbourg in costume, arriving in London with Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg in 1968

Serge Gainsbourg in black peaks

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in 1970

Serge Gainsbourg in leather jacket

Serge Gainsbourg in white t-shirt with "jane" message

Serge Gainsbourg in black blazer and golden buttons

Serge Gainsbourg, open shirt, with Jane Birkin, Kate Barry and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Saint-Tropez

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974

Serge Gainsbourg in shirt and striped blazer jacket

Serge Gainsbourg, in 1980, in Paris

Serge Gainsbourg in Khaki shirt and Décalané Jean, with Catherine Deneuve

Serge Gainsbourg in Blazer and Jean in 1981, in Paris

Serge Gainsbourg in blue shirt on January 3, 1985, in Paris

Serge Gainsbourg in Total Look Denim, in his apartment rue de Verneuil, in Paris

Serge Gainsbourg, dandy in costume

Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve, in Paris

Serge Gainsbourg in Jean/Blazer uniform in October 1989 in Paris

Serge Gainsbourg on stage in denim and black blazer

Serge Gainsbourg with his partner, the Bambou model, March 31, 1982

Serge Gainsbourg in summer look, in May 1983 at the Cannes Film Festival

Serge Gainsbourg, in suit and hat, on antenna 2 on March 31, 1982

The famous Repetto white derbies of Serge Gainsbourg