Olivia Rodrigo Drops Jane Birkin and Her Vintage Mini Dress Into Versailles
2 min readTHE RUNDOWN
- Olivia Rodrigo released the music video for her song “Drop Dead,” set at Versailles.
- She wears Jane Birkin’s vintage mini dress from the 1975 film Catherine et Cie.
- The song is the lead single from Rodrigo’s upcoming album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.
What would Jane Birkin wear in Versailles? In Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead” video, the lead single off her upcoming album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, she answers that question by reframing Birkin’s Left Bank je ne sais quoi.
Styled by Chloe & Chenelle Delgadillo, Rodrigo scoured Birkin’s closet for the Petra Collins-directed video’s opening scene. She dances around a hazy discotheque in an embellished bateau neck dress, the very same Simone Baron item Birkin wore in the 1975 Michel Boisrond film Catherine et Cie. Like Rodrigo, Birkin shimmied in the pearl-encrusted number during a dance scene. But in Rodrigo’s version, she finds herself inside Marie Antoinette’s former residence—albeit filtered through a Sofia Coppola-inspired lens.
Jane Birkin in Catherine et Cie.
The visual then progresses as Rodrigo finds herself in one of Versailles’s gilded sleeping chambers as she croons about stalking a love interest on the internet. In one scene, she runs around the palace grounds as Kirsten Dunst did in Coppola’s 2006 cult film Marie Antoinette, which happens to celebrate its 20th anniversary next month. But don’t expect a full period drama—Rodrigo’s wardrobe remains firmly in the modern French Girl lexicon. She glides around Versailles not in an elaborate pannier dress, but in a flirty lace moment from Chloé’s pre-fall 2026 collection with a pink guitar and headphones.
There’s a fun contrast at play here. Set against the excess of Versailles, Rodrigo’s mini dresses take on a new context. Instead of the 18th-century influences seen on the runways of late—think the padded, Rococo-inspired hips at Dior, the romantic dresses by Simone Rocha and Erdem—Chemena Kamali’s breezy, boho Chloé serves as Rodrigo’s palace clothes. The Birkin callback is a fitting one, too. She sings about her flame knowing “all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’” the song by The Cure that likely would have been blaring when Birkin, a foremost Anglo-Franco icon, danced through her 1980s cultural milieu.
“Drop dead is out now!!!!” Rodrigo wrote on Instagram, “I love this song so much!!! it’s the first chapter in the story of ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ and it makes me wanna skip around and roll the windows down and make out! I was lucky enough to film the music video at the palace of Versailles a few months ago with the wonderful @petrafcollins and I’m so stoked with how it turned out. I hope you guys love it as much as I do xoxoxoxo ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????”