PopSugar — The Cannes Film Festival kicks off in the South of France this week, and we're soaking up all the glitz and glamour that the annual event has to offer. Founded in 1946, the festival has developed a long, eccentric history rife with controversial film... more info

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Reuters — PARIS (Reuters) - Actress and singer Jane Birkin is now satisfied with how luxury group Hermes treats crocodiles and has dropped her request to have her name removed from its iconic handbags, the French company said on Friday. more info

Time — Birkin bags — with their years-long wait lists, five-digit price tags and cult-like celebrity following — have long been considered a status symbol. Now the inspiration behind Hermès‘s high-fashion bag, British singer and style icon Jane Birki... more info

Reuters — PARIS (Reuters) - Actress and singer Jane Birkin has asked Hermes to remove her name from one of the luxury goods maker's best-selling bags due to what she called "cruelusli" crocodile farming and slaughtering practices. more info

The Telegraph — Photographs by Jane Birkin's brother convey the love affair that enthralled a generation more info

Impose Magazine — Last year Parisian psych-pop band Tara King th. entered our radar with an intoxicating cassette on Moon Glyph entitled, Uncolored Past (Pt. I & II). It was an out of time record reminiscent of Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin set to Middle Eastern psyc... more info

Guardian Music — Session guitarist with more than 50 chart toppers to his nameThe sound of British pop music in the 1960s was largely the creation of unsung recording-session musicians who accompanied the solo singers of the era and were frequently enlisted to improv... more info

ContactMusic — British singeractress Jane Birkin has postponed a rare concert in London until 2013 The star was set to perform songs written by her late partner and mentor Serge Gainsbourg at Cadogan Hall in the U K capital on 7 October 12 However Birkins r... more info

Guardian Music — Somerset House, London"The songs that we sing, do they mean anything to the people we're singing them to?" asks Charlotte Gainsbourg, closing the main part of her show with the 2006 track The Songs That We Sing. Good question. The actor/musician daug... more info