Editing Brigitte Bardot (section)

==Legacy==
{{quote box|quote= You know, the one thing that was so great in those days was that a woman named Brigitte Bardot came along with ''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|Et Dieu... créa la femme]]''. Over here, we were fighting censorship in the 1950s and 1960s, when you couldn't even show you had a bust. We had to cover everything, and when Bardot's movie was released in an [[Art film|art house]] in Los Angeles, my God, people were lining up all the way down Wilshire Boulevard to see it. I also stood in line, and I thought, "Why can't I do that?"<ref>{{cite web|title=Mamie Van Doren: "Talking about Marilyn Monroe is strange. To me, she's a person; to most people, she's an idea" |url=https://filmtalk.org/2017/07/28/mamie-van-doren-talking-about-marilyn-monroe-is-strange-to-me-shes-a-person-to-most-people-shes-an-idea/|year=2017}}</ref><br> – [[Mamie Van Doren]], 2000|width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
''[[The Guardian]]'' named Bardot "one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the 1950s and 1960s". She has been called a "style icon" and a "muse for [[Dior]], [[Balmain (fashion house)|Balmain]], and [[Pierre Cardin]]".<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=1 December 2016 |title=Brigitte Bardot: the style icon − in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2016/dec/01/brigitte-bardot-the-style-icon-in-pictures |url-status=live |work=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101083849/https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2016/dec/01/brigitte-bardot-the-style-icon-in-pictures |archive-date=1 November 2020 |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref>

In fashion, the Bardot neckline (a wide-open neck that exposes both shoulders) is named after her. Bardot popularized this style, which is especially used for knitted sweaters or jumpers, although it is also used for other tops and dresses. Bardot popularized the [[bikini]] in her early films such as ''[[Manina, the Girl in the Bikini|Manina]]'' (1952) (released in France as ''Manina, la fille sans voiles''). The following year she was also photographed in a bikini on every beach in southern France during the [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bikinis: a brief history|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/10160619/Bikinis-a-brief-history.html?frame=2609664|newspaper=Telegraph|access-date=20 August 2013}}</ref> She gained additional attention when she filmed ''[[And God Created Woman (1956 film)|...And God Created Woman]]'' (1956) with [[Jean-Louis Trintignant]] (released in France as ''Et Dieu Créa La Femme''). In it Bardot portrays an immoral teenager cavorting in a bikini who seduces men in a respectable small-town setting. The film was an international success.<ref name="twolives"/> Bardot's image was linked to the shoemaker [[Repetto]], who created a pair of ballerinas for her in 1956.<ref name="Grazia-bio">{{cite news |author=<!--mot stated--> |date=n.d. |title=Brigitte Bardot |url=https://www.grazia.fr/encyclopedie/icone/brigitte-bardot |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Grazia]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204205722/https://www.grazia.fr/encyclopedie/icone/brigitte-bardot |archive-date=4 December 2021 |access-date=4 December 2021 }}</ref> The bikini was in the 1950s relatively well accepted in France but was still considered risqué in the United States. As late as 1959, Anne Cole, one of the United States' largest swimsuit designers, said, "It's nothing more than a G-string. It's at the razor's edge of decency."<ref name=WOJSI>{{cite magazine|first=William Oscar|last=Johnson|archive-date=20 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020050948/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068171/3/index.htm |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068171/3/index.htm|title=In The Swim|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=7 February 1989|access-date=18 August 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Brigitte Bardot in Spoleto, Italy, 1961.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Bardot in Spoleto, Italy (1961)]]

She also brought into fashion the {{lang|fr|[[choucroute]]}} ({{literal translation|sauerkraut}}) hairstyle (similar to the [[beehive (hairstyle)|beehive hair style]]) and [[gingham]] clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier.<ref name=femstyle>{{cite web|url=http://www.femminastyle.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=9|title=Style Icon: Brigitte Bardot|publisher=Femminastyle.com|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> French philosopher [[Simone de Beauvoir]] described Bardot as "a locomotive of women's history".<ref name="Borg2017"/>

Isabella Biedenharn of ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' wrote that Bardot "has inspired thousands (millions?) of women to tease their hair or try out winged eyeliner over the past few decades". A well-known evocative pose describes an iconic modelling portrait shot around 1960 where Bardot is dressed only in a pair of black [[pantyhose]], cross-legged over her front and cross-armed over her breasts; known as the "Bardot Pose".<ref>{{cite news |last=Biedenharn |first=Isabella |date=4 November 2014 |title=The 20 Best Legs Throughout History |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g42/best-legs-throughout-history-1/?slide=18 |url-status=live|work=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210657/https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/g42/best-legs-throughout-history-1/?slide=18 |archive-date=22 November 2021}} Slide 18</ref> This pose has been emulated numerous times by models and celebrities such as [[Lindsay Lohan]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Sweeney |first=Kathleen |date=2008 |title=Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlYpFAi1QsMC&pg=PA55 |location=Atlanta |publisher=[[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]] |page=55 |isbn=978-0-820-48197-5}}</ref> [[Elle Macpherson]],<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date= |title=Ces stars qui ont posé pour Playboy |trans-title=These stars who posed for Playboy |url=https://photo.gala.fr/ces-stars-qui-ont-pose-pour-playboy-13091 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Gala (magazine)|Gala]] |location=Paris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210659/https://photo.gala.fr/ces-stars-qui-ont-pose-pour-playboy-13091 |archive-date=22 November 2021 |access-date=22 November 2021 }}</ref> [[Gisele Bündchen]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Sabrina B. |date=28 April 2011 |title=Gisele Bündchen topless joue les Brigitte Bardot... |trans-title=Gisele Bündchen topless plays Brigitte Bardot... |url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/gisele-bundchen-topless-joue-les-brigitte-bardot_a78781/1 |url-status=live|language=fr |work=[[Puremédias]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210656/https://www.purepeople.com/article/gisele-bundchen-topless-joue-les-brigitte-bardot_a78781/1 |archive-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> and [[Rihanna]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=3 December 2010 |title=Rihanna on GQ magazine |url=https://www.fashionhasit.com/2010/12/rihanna-on-gq-magazine.html |url-status=live |work=[[GQ]] |location=UK |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122161848/https://www.fashionhasit.com/2010/12/rihanna-on-gq-magazine.html |archive-date=22 January 2021 |access-date=22 November 2021 |via=Fashion Has It}}</ref> In the late 1960s, Bardot's silhouette was used as a model for designing and modelling the statue's bust of [[Marianne]], a symbol of the French Republic.<ref name="Bricard2020"/>

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has been credited with popularizing the city of [[St. Tropez]] and the town of [[Armação dos Búzios]] in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury. The place where she stayed in Búzios is today a small hotel, Pousada do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon.<ref>{{cite web|title=TOemBUZIOS.com |url=http://www.toembuzios.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108111621/http://www.toembuzios.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=8 January 2013 |website=toembuzios.com |language=pt |access-date=27 December 2012 }}</ref> The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buziosonline.com.br/indexe.htm|title=BúziosOnline.com|publisher=BúziosOnline.com|access-date=13 March 2010}}</ref>

Bardot was idolized by the young [[John Lennon]] and [[Paul McCartney]].<ref name="MilesPage69">{{cite book|author=Miles, Barry|title=Many Years from Now|publisher=Vintage–Random House|year=1998|isbn=978-0-7493-8658-0|author-link=Barry Miles|title-link=Many Years From Now}} pg. 69.</ref><ref name="Spitzp171">{{cite book|author=Spitz, Bob|title=The Beatles: The Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesbiography00spit|url-access=registration| publisher=Little, Brown and Company (New York)| year=2005|isbn=978-1-84513-160-9|author-link=Bob Spitz}} pg. 171.</ref> They made plans to shoot a film featuring [[The Beatles]] and Bardot, similar to ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'', but the plans were never fulfilled.<ref name="twolives"/> Lennon's first wife [[Cynthia Powell]] lightened her hair colour to more closely resemble Bardot, while [[George Harrison]] made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife [[Pattie Boyd]], as Cynthia wrote later in ''A Twist of Lennon''. Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the [[May Fair Hotel]], introduced by Beatles press agent [[Derek Taylor]]; a nervous Lennon took [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] before arriving, and neither star impressed the other. Lennon recalled in a memoir: "I was on acid, and she was on her way out."<ref name="LennonPage24">{{cite book|author=Lennon, John|title=Skywriting by Word of Mouth|publisher=Harper Collins|year=1986|isbn=978-0-06-015656-5|author-link=John Lennon|title-link=Skywriting by Word of Mouth}} pg. 24.</ref> According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician [[Bob Dylan]] dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. He also mentioned her by name in "[[I Shall Be Free]]", which appeared on his second album, ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]''. The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in [[Boulogne-Billancourt]] on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.<ref>[http://www.connexionfrance.com/expatriate-news-article.php?art=375 Brigitte Bardot at 75: the exhibition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926164352/http://www.connexionfrance.com/expatriate-news-article.php?art=375 |date=26 September 2009 }}, connexionfrance.com, September 2009; accessed 4 August 2015.</ref> 

Bardot was the subject of eight [[Andy Warhol]] paintings in 1974.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sischy |first=Ingrid |author-link=Ingrid Sischy |date=4 October 2011 |title=The Bardot Variations |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/bardot-spotlight-201111 |url-status=live |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110230740/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11/bardot-spotlight-201111 |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

The Australian pop group [[Bardot (Australian band)|Bardot]] was named after her.

[[File:Statue of Brigitte Bardot in Rio de Janeiro.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|''Brigitte Bardot'' statue in [[Armação dos Búzios|Búzios]], Brazil]]

[[Kylie Minogue]] adopted the Bardot "[[sex kitten]] look" on the cover of her album ''[[Body Language (Kylie Minogue album)|Body Language]]'', released in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 October 2003 |title=Kylie uses sexy Bardot look for new album |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-24/kylie-uses-sexy-bardot-look-for-new-album/1498442 |url-status=live |work=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |location=Paris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241111180754/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-24/kylie-uses-sexy-bardot-look-for-new-album/1498442 |archive-date=11 November 2024 |access-date=11 November 2024}}</ref>

Women who emulated and were inspired by Bardot include [[Claudia Schiffer]], [[Emmanuelle Béart]], [[Elke Sommer]], [[Kate Moss]], [[Faith Hill]], [[Isabelle Adjani]], [[Diane Kruger]], [[Lara Stone]], Minogue, [[Amy Winehouse]], [[Georgia May Jagger]], [[Zahia Dehar]], [[Scarlett Johansson]], [[Louise Bourgoin]], and [[Paris Hilton]]. Bardot said: "None have my personality." [[Laetitia Casta]] embodied Bardot in the 2010 French drama film ''[[Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life]]'' by [[Joann Sfar]].{{sfn|Bigot|2014|p=26–27}}

In 2011, ''[[Los Angeles Times Magazine]]''{{'}}s list of "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" ranked her number two.<ref>{{cite news |last=Spencer |first=Kathleen |date=2011 |title=L.A Times Magazine Names Their 50 Most Beautiful Women In Film |url=https://www.momtastic.com/home/125894-la-times-magazine-names-their-50-most-beautiful-women-in-film/ |url-status=live|work=Momtastic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165620/https://www.momtastic.com/home/125894-la-times-magazine-names-their-50-most-beautiful-women-in-film/ |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

A portrait of Bardot by Warhol, commissioned by Sachs in 1974, was sold at [[Sotheby's]] in London on 22 and 23 May 2012. The painting, estimated at {{Currency|4|GBP}}&nbsp;million, was part of Sachs' art collection put on sale a year after his death.<ref>{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Anita |date=13 March 2013 |title=Gunter Sachs Collection at Sotheby's: sale reveals playboy's enduring passion for Brigitte Bardot |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9139300/Gunter-Sachs-Collection-at-Sothebys-sale-reveals-playboys-enduring-passion-for-Brigitte-Bardot.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110232605/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9139300/Gunter-Sachs-Collection-at-Sothebys-sale-reveals-playboys-enduring-passion-for-Brigitte-Bardot.html |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

She inspired [[Nicole Kidman]], who had "Bardot-esque" hair in the 2013 British brand [[Jimmy Choo (fashion house)|Jimmy Choo]] campaign.<ref>{{cite news |last=Milligan |first=Lauren |date=28 October 2013 |title=Nicole Kidman Talks Becoming Bardot |url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nicole-kidman-for-jimmy-choo-shoes-film-bardot |url-status=live |work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725013016/https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/nicole-kidman-for-jimmy-choo-shoes-film-bardot |archive-date=25 July 2020 |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref>

In 2015, Bardot was ranked number six in "The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women of All Time", according to a survey carried out by [[Amway]]'s beauty company in the UK involving 2,000 women.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=6 January 2015 |title=The Top Ten Most Beautiful Women Of ALL Time |url=https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/top-10-most-beautiful-iconic-women-of-all-time/brigitte-bardot/ |work=[[Heart (radio network)|Heart]] |access-date=20 August 2023 |archive-date=20 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820173159/https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/top-10-most-beautiful-iconic-women-of-all-time/brigitte-bardot/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2020, ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' named Bardot number one of "The most beautiful French actresses of all time".<ref>{{cite news |last=Garrigues |first=Manon |date=4 June 2020 |title=The most beautiful French actresses of all time |url=https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-exhibitions/diaporama/the-most-beautiful-french-actresses-of-all-time-brigitte-bardot-lea-seydoux-isabelle-adjani/51990 |url-status=live|work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |others=Translated by Stephanie Green |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122210656/https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-exhibitions/diaporama/the-most-beautiful-french-actresses-of-all-time-brigitte-bardot-lea-seydoux-isabelle-adjani/51990 |archive-date=22 November 2021}}</ref> In a retrospective retracing women throughout the history of cinema, she was listed among "the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time" by ''[[Glamour (magazine)|Glamour]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Josh |date=4 August 2020 |title=From Marilyn to Margot: the most accomplished, talented and beautiful actresses of all time |url=https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/movie-goddesses |url-status=live|work=[[Glamour (magazine)|Glamour]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128165619/https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/gallery/movie-goddesses |archive-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>

The French drama television series ''[[Bardot (TV series)|Bardot]]'' was broadcast on [[France 2]] in 2023. It stars Julia de Nunez and is about Bardot's career from her first casting at age 15 and until the filming of ''La Vérité'' ten years later.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18710758.html |title=Bardot : découvrez la première photo de Julia de Nunez en Brigitte Bardot et le casting cinq étoiles de la série de France 2 |work=[[AlloCiné]] |date=13 June 2022 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> In 2023, she was mentioned in [[Olivia Rodrigo]]'s song "[[Lacy (song)|Lacy]]" from her album ''[[Guts (Olivia Rodrigo album)|Guts]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |date=14 September 2023 |title=Every Olivia Rodrigo Song, Ranked |url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/olivia-rodrigo-every-song-ranked-49906/lacy-49914/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Rolling Stone Australia]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241110221424/https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/olivia-rodrigo-every-song-ranked-49906/lacy-49914/ |archive-date=10 November 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> and [[Chappell Roan]]'s "[[Red Wine Supernova]]" from her album ''[[The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cills |first=Hazel |date=25 July 2024 |title=What is it about Chappell Roan? |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13100/why-chappell-roan-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-our-anxious-music-industry |url-status=live |work=[[NPR]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240806171351/https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13100/why-chappell-roan-is-the-perfect-pop-star-for-our-anxious-music-industry |archive-date=6 August 2024 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>