Sunroom Mood Board: St-Tropez in the 60s

As winter sets in, we’re setting sights to Mediterranean escapes and recently found ourselves in a wanderlust wormhole: the French Riviera and St-Tropez in the 60s-70s, where a tiny fisherman’s village transformed to the embodiment of glamorous holiday “joie de vivre.”

Today it exists as a sort of “myth” of St Trop — a meeting spot for international royalty, writers, and celebrities (notably centered around the iconic Le Byblos hotel and nightclub, opened by Lebanese billionaire Prosper Gay-Para) and sparked by Brigitte Bardot’s breakthrough role in the cult movie “And God Created Women.”

Ostentatious, yes, but still a welcome pop of color and frivolity on a gray January day...

Above images:
Photo by Georges Dambier, 1961
Brigitte Bardot & Gunter Sachs
Brigitte Bardot at Byblos
Alain Delon with wife Nathalie and son Anthony in the 1960’s
Riviera parking, 1960s
Bardot sunbathing in St Tropez, 1975
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Brigitte Bardot with Jacques Charrier in St Tropez, 1959
Brigitte Bardot with Alain Delon, 1968
Alain Delon, his wife Nathalie and son Anthony, 1964
Eddie Barclay's pyschedelic party in Saint-Tropez, 1967
Natalie Wood pictured on Saint-Tropez's Tahiti beach, 1968
Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Kate Barry and Charlotte Gainsbourg summering in Saint-Tropez, 1971