Ah, Serge. The type of sex God only France could create: gangly, skinny, big nose, bulging eyes, and looking like a cross between Mr. Burns and Roman Polanski with a lit cigarette hanging from his puffy lips. Despite his crazy appearance, Serge Gainsbourg wooed Brigitte Bardot and wedded Jane Birkin and had women all over […]
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A vague, self-indulgent portrait of a pop icon
The Impossible Cool is basically a litany of all the Heroes of Cool that have come and gone (some, thankfully, still remain with us). The list of black and white portraits include style luminaries like Mies Van der Rohe, Thelonious Monk, Toshiro Mifune, Joe Strummer, Sophia Loren, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Hunter S Thompson, Marilyn […]