This week we welcome the writer Marisa Meltzer back to STARGIRL to discuss her new book It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin (out this week!). We discuss the myth of Jane Birkin and Marisa’s project to animate her beyond a 2D moodboard figure, and use Jane as a vessel to revisit classic STARGIRL conversations such as Artist vs. Muse, Narrative Control, and Nature vs. Artifice. We discuss Jane’s lifelong Lolita energy, character as a mother, natural aging process, and comfortability as a vessel for others’ creative and sexual projections.
Plus, I reflect on seeing Addison live after 5+ years of indulging my fixation in my imagination, give my take on the various Showgirl vibes in culture right now, and answer the elephant in the room: Is Jane Birkin a Stargirl or an It Girl?
Discussed:
It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin, Marisa Meltzer (2025)
Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Life of Emily Weiss’s Glossier, Marisa Meltzer (2023)
“Addison Rae Wants More Than Virality” Alex Hawgood, W Mag (2025)
Alix Earle on DWTS (so good!)
“Margaret Qualley Manifested This Cover Story” Willa Bennett Cosmopolitan (2025)
The Power Notebooks, Katie Roiphe (2020)