Marianne Faithfull, the songstress who helped spur music's British invasion and was a muse to the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 78.

In her later years, Faithfull became a fashion crowd darling, knocking around New York with Karl Lagerfeld, performing at Chloé events and dressing for the stage in Chanel.

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied,