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The word paparazzi hadn't even been invented yet in 1953, when a bikini-clad Brigitte Bardot drew an ogling swarm of them to the strand at the Bay of Cannes. The festival itself had dawned as a rite of spring only a few years before (following a false start in 1939, when World War II called an early halt to the party). Bardot's husband, the French New Wave director Roger Vadim, stage-managed her provocative photo call, producing the first iconic half-naked-in-Cannes image. It wouldn't be the last.
The word paparazzi hadn't even been invented yet in 1953, when a bikini-clad Brigitte Bardot drew an ogling swarm of them to the strand at the Bay of Cannes. The festival itself had dawned as a rite of spring only a few years before (following a false start in 1939, when World War II called an early halt to the party). Bardot's husband, the French New Wave director Roger Vadim, stage-managed her provocative photo call, producing the first iconic half-naked-in-Cannes image. It wouldn't be the last.