Vanessa Paradis’ beauty has had an ageless look for decades, to the point where it’s easy to forget the singer turned actor originally rose to fame when she was just 14, when her smash single “Joe le Taxi,” from her debut album M & J, soared to the top of the French charts.
Paradis went on to become a movie star, a fashion icon, a Chanel fixture, and the mother of another movie star.
When Paradis posed on the beach in Martinique, France, she exuded pure vacation excitement.
When performing on the TV show Avis de Recherche, Paradis showed off her checkered bra.
At the 1989 César Film Awards, Paradis inspired the dancing woman emoji.
During Paris Fashion Week, Paradis defied expectations by walking the runway for Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.
Paradis began her singing career with ’80s-style bangs, but she avoided the era’s out-there beauty features at all costs.
When Paradis dressed in a houndstooth blazer in Paris around the time of her breakout single “Joe le Taxi,” she was on the verge of success.
In an email to music superstar Elton John in 2013, Johnny Depp referred to his children’s mother, Vanessa Paradis, as a French “extortionist c–t.”
This was disclosed during Depp’s defamation trial in Virginia, where he was being cross-examined by his ex-wife Amber Heard.
