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Rewind a generation for Brigitte Bardot's tousled hair, pouty mouth and sensual allure. Then fast-forward -- and surprise! -- blond tendrils again, lips in a pout and more curves than a scenic railroad. It's CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, the newest top star on the international fashion runway. Discovered in a Dusseldorf disco, Schiffer, 19, is being called the face of the '90s. She has already been on the cover of Vogue and Elle and showed off Chanel's latest collection. In her provocative ads for Guess?, Schiffer fills a pair of jeans in a way that cowboys only dream...
...BRIGITTE BARDOT...
Thirty years ago, Roger Vadim created And God Created Woman and created Brigitte Bardot. Now the French director has seen fit to update his classic handiwork. The man who made stars -- and conquests -- of such leading ladies as Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda has just finished an identically titled 1980s version that is the "same idea," he says, but the "heroine is different." Juliette, the saucy French hedonist, has become Robin Shay, an aspiring American musician. She "believes in her freedom over everything," says Rebecca De Mornay, 24, who plays the part. "And she's afraid of the intimacy...
...impressed with her visage. "My skull is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting director who picked her to play Betty Blue, sees something else. "Like Brigitte Bardot, her physical anomalies are more important than her beauty," he says. "There is obvious violence in her look." Americans will have a chance to make their own determination. The movie is just opening around...
...black, smoky look evoking the Beats and the Left Bank of '50s Paris seemed "existential" to him. But, he adds, "actually, I had a lot of black fabric that had been delivered late, and I had to use it. I just happened to see a '50s movie with Brigitte Bardot." He is similarly resourceful about tapping into an impulse before it becomes a trend, and fearless as well as funny in his ability to meld styles to his whim and will. "This new collection of mine is the Thousand and One Nights," he explains, adding, "I've mixed the 18th...