Brigitte Bardot is pictured in Jean Aurel's Les Femmes, 1969. Bardot stars as Clara, a vivacious young woman ostensibly hired for secretarial work by a licentious, older novelist suffering from a bad case of writer's block. Clara's presence revitalizes and inspires the author, who soon finds himself obsessed with her liberated sexuality, modern sensibilities and lush, pouty lips.

Bardot's pose with her legs apart and hands tightly clasped, gives the sense of feminine sensuality and simultaneously conveys strength. It is this combination that made Bardot such a compelling sexual icon of the 1960s. As Simone De Beauvoir commented in Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome "BB seems to be available to everyone and yet, paradoxically, she is intimidating....(T)here is something stubborn in her sulky face, in her sturdy body....There is nothing coarse about her. She has a kind of spontaneous dignity..."