Lou Doillon
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That is brilliant, thanks so much for sharing your experience with us ShoeGal4Eva
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StellaMare,thank you for sharing with us
! i'm so happy for you,you lucky girl!
wow,im just speechless how gorge those pics r.
how was Lou in person,is she funny?charming i bet
! i'm so happy for you,you lucky girl!wow,im just speechless how gorge those pics r.
how was Lou in person,is she funny?charming i bet
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^^ She was very charming.. The kind of a person you can't take your eyes off of. Her face is perfect in reality..the "horse" mouth isn't bad at all and it really suits her B) if that makes sense.
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Thanks a lot !
So apparently, Lou is said to be the guest designer of a mini-collection for La Redoute that will be sold this Autumn, her project as a designer on her own is set for next year, she's said to be the image/to work in collaboration with an important label.
So apparently, Lou is said to be the guest designer of a mini-collection for La Redoute that will be sold this Autumn, her project as a designer on her own is set for next year, she's said to be the image/to work in collaboration with an important label.
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love the coat and the shoes!!nd that scarf is chloe colors with the bag,perfect lou
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^^ It was an hour, and there were no discussion..but Lou spoke with the audience quite a lot and made jokes.
New interview From The Sunday Times
Wild child
At 11, she had dreadlocks and a bad attitude. At 24, she has become one of France’s hottest young things. Summer Litchfield meets Lou Doillon —model, actress and rebellious modern muse
I was holding him while they were sewing his head up, and they were doing the stitches wrong, putting the needle in wrong, dropping the scissors . . . it felt like we were caught up in this 17th-century drama.”
Lou Doillon, the 24-year-old daughter of Jane Birkin and the French film director Jacques Doillon, is describing the scene at the hospital last night when she took her five-year-old son for stitches after he fell off his bike. Marlowe Jack Tiger Mitchell now thinks he looks like Anakin Skywalker. “It’s true!” laughs his mother. “He’s got this huge gash on his head, but he still wants to get on his skateboard.”
It’s 11.30pm and Doillon has just performed at a small theatre in Paris, reading love letters from Napoleon, Apollinaire and other famous lovers. We are now at Bobin’O, where Doillon’s friend, the model, designer, actress and singer Milla Jovovich, is playing a secret gig to launch the new Jovovich-Hawk range that she and fellow model Carmen Hawk have designed for the high-street store Mango. Doillon is the face, the body and the inspiration for the collection.
Tonight, looking every inch the muse, she has her hair piled up under a trilby and is wearing a black dress that has a touch of Stevie Nicks about it. Far from being the haughty Parisian I expect, she is warm and effusive, with a voice remarkably like her mother’s, apart from a wisp of Gauloise huskiness and the odd French-ism.
Doillon and Jovovich have been close friends for the past four years since Lou’s cousin and Milla’s friend Anno Birkin died in a car crash, aged just 20. “I was heartbroken,” Doillon says. “Marlowe was nearly a year old, I’d just broken up with his father [the musician Thomas-John Mitchell], and Milla just embraced me. She was, like, ‘Leave Paris, come to New York.’ So I did. She’d just started designing and really wanted me to see the clothes, which I fell in love with. Milla and I had this sort of culture love affair. I’m obsessed with history and literature and Milla is an extremely passionate reader — a very, very smart woman. People are, like, ‘Oh, there are those two models,’ and we’re actually talking about incredibly geeky things like physics and what we’ve just read in American Scientist.”
But then, Doillon has never been your average Maw (model, actress, whatever ). She once jokingly claimed her middle name was Excess. “My mother boasts that when I was nine, a shop asked if they could nick my style for one of its collections,” she says. “I used to put Indian leggings under short dresses, worn with tiny Grateful Dead T-shirts and Rollerblades, and I had long dreadlocks. By the time I was 11½, I had a stud in my tongue and tattoos.”
As legend has it, by the time Doillon was 15, she had added a drug habit to the ensemble — although it took her until she was
19 to get pregnant, despite her father’s prediction that she would be up the duff by 14. It was also in her mid-teens that she started modelling. “Someone approached me, I guess because I looked completely different from anybody else, but I wasn’t at all sure,” she says. “I thought my mother, having run around half-naked in the 1960s, would be more into it, but it was actually my father who said, ‘This is the best plan ever — do it! Make some money modelling and then you can do low-budget movies, and because you’ll be a name, you’ll help to get the films made.’
“I’d go to castings and people used to think I was the delivery boy with someone else’s portfolio,” she says. “Then, suddenly, I was confirmed to do all these shows — Vivienne Westwood, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix — it was insane! It was a total disaster because
I was so bad. Missoni sent me down the catwalk behind Gisele. I was, like, ‘You’re joking!’ This girl sends out her legs 1½ metres in front of her, and I went on stage and just had a laughing fit. Someone had to come out to get me and bring me backstage. The whole thing was basically one big misunderstanding, but one misunderstanding led to another and another, and suddenly I was doing campaigns.” To date, she has been the face of Chanel, Givenchy, Miu Miu and now Mango.
Misunderstanding or not, Doillon followed her father’s advice and used the modelling jobs to finance her real passion: film. Having got her first break at the age of five, playing her mother’s on-screen daughter in the questionably titled Kung-Fu Master, Doillon went on to make other films, including two with her father. She first appeared on UK art-house screens aged 19 as a rebellious minx, next to a (slightly) more composed Charlotte Rampling, in Summer Things. “It was the first time I’d played a sexy girl,” Doillon says, and it certainly didn’t seem to do her career any harm. Pirelli has just featured her in its latest and one of its raciest calendars, alongside Penelope Cruz and Naomi Watts, and scheduled for release later this year is the quirky comedy Go Go Tales, also starring Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento, in which Doillon plays a club dancer.
Also out this year is Boxes, written and directed by and starring her mother, Jane Birkin. “It was very strange and lovely for me to do,” says Doillon, who co-stars in the film. “I mean, we’re a strange family, and we have a strange past. But this is my mother’s point of view. She films herself in a superharsh light: no retouching, nothing. It’s like, ‘Okay, 40 years ago I was an icon and this is where I am today.’ There is not one actress of her age that I have ever seen do such an open film about her life.”
But films are far from the only thing on Doillon’s agenda. “I loved spending time with Milla and Carmen, and I’ve learnt so much by seeing them work together. I’ve got so much respect for them, because I’ve seen so many people just give their names to a label and not be there. They’re in the factory six hours a day, checking every hem and button. I’ve always thought that if I started designing, it would have to be legitimate; I’d have to spend time at it. Milla has taught me that it is possible to make design compatible with film and whatever else you’re doing. I’ve been approached by a couple of brands in Paris that I may work with on a few ideas,” she says enigmatically.
She may also, it seems, be following in her half-sister Charlotte Gainsbourg’s footsteps down a more musical path — Gainsbourg released an album last year, 5:55, recorded with Air.
“I would love to do an album, but I believe in taking anything you’re serious about very slowly. I just did a song that’s being put out by Visionaire magazine, and next I want to play tiny bars in New York — that kind of thing, start small. I’m okay if I’ve done it the good way, that’s what my father taught me. You know, I’m the first one to be, like, ‘Who the f*** do you think you are?’ about myself. That is what’s constantly going through my mind. So if I gather enough courage to do it, I want to do it properly.”
Right now, there doesn’t seem to be any reason why she can’t do it all.
timesonline.co.uk
Wild child
At 11, she had dreadlocks and a bad attitude. At 24, she has become one of France’s hottest young things. Summer Litchfield meets Lou Doillon —model, actress and rebellious modern muse
I was holding him while they were sewing his head up, and they were doing the stitches wrong, putting the needle in wrong, dropping the scissors . . . it felt like we were caught up in this 17th-century drama.”
Lou Doillon, the 24-year-old daughter of Jane Birkin and the French film director Jacques Doillon, is describing the scene at the hospital last night when she took her five-year-old son for stitches after he fell off his bike. Marlowe Jack Tiger Mitchell now thinks he looks like Anakin Skywalker. “It’s true!” laughs his mother. “He’s got this huge gash on his head, but he still wants to get on his skateboard.”
It’s 11.30pm and Doillon has just performed at a small theatre in Paris, reading love letters from Napoleon, Apollinaire and other famous lovers. We are now at Bobin’O, where Doillon’s friend, the model, designer, actress and singer Milla Jovovich, is playing a secret gig to launch the new Jovovich-Hawk range that she and fellow model Carmen Hawk have designed for the high-street store Mango. Doillon is the face, the body and the inspiration for the collection.
Tonight, looking every inch the muse, she has her hair piled up under a trilby and is wearing a black dress that has a touch of Stevie Nicks about it. Far from being the haughty Parisian I expect, she is warm and effusive, with a voice remarkably like her mother’s, apart from a wisp of Gauloise huskiness and the odd French-ism.
Doillon and Jovovich have been close friends for the past four years since Lou’s cousin and Milla’s friend Anno Birkin died in a car crash, aged just 20. “I was heartbroken,” Doillon says. “Marlowe was nearly a year old, I’d just broken up with his father [the musician Thomas-John Mitchell], and Milla just embraced me. She was, like, ‘Leave Paris, come to New York.’ So I did. She’d just started designing and really wanted me to see the clothes, which I fell in love with. Milla and I had this sort of culture love affair. I’m obsessed with history and literature and Milla is an extremely passionate reader — a very, very smart woman. People are, like, ‘Oh, there are those two models,’ and we’re actually talking about incredibly geeky things like physics and what we’ve just read in American Scientist.”
But then, Doillon has never been your average Maw (model, actress, whatever ). She once jokingly claimed her middle name was Excess. “My mother boasts that when I was nine, a shop asked if they could nick my style for one of its collections,” she says. “I used to put Indian leggings under short dresses, worn with tiny Grateful Dead T-shirts and Rollerblades, and I had long dreadlocks. By the time I was 11½, I had a stud in my tongue and tattoos.”
As legend has it, by the time Doillon was 15, she had added a drug habit to the ensemble — although it took her until she was
19 to get pregnant, despite her father’s prediction that she would be up the duff by 14. It was also in her mid-teens that she started modelling. “Someone approached me, I guess because I looked completely different from anybody else, but I wasn’t at all sure,” she says. “I thought my mother, having run around half-naked in the 1960s, would be more into it, but it was actually my father who said, ‘This is the best plan ever — do it! Make some money modelling and then you can do low-budget movies, and because you’ll be a name, you’ll help to get the films made.’
“I’d go to castings and people used to think I was the delivery boy with someone else’s portfolio,” she says. “Then, suddenly, I was confirmed to do all these shows — Vivienne Westwood, Sonia Rykiel, Christian Lacroix — it was insane! It was a total disaster because
I was so bad. Missoni sent me down the catwalk behind Gisele. I was, like, ‘You’re joking!’ This girl sends out her legs 1½ metres in front of her, and I went on stage and just had a laughing fit. Someone had to come out to get me and bring me backstage. The whole thing was basically one big misunderstanding, but one misunderstanding led to another and another, and suddenly I was doing campaigns.” To date, she has been the face of Chanel, Givenchy, Miu Miu and now Mango.
Misunderstanding or not, Doillon followed her father’s advice and used the modelling jobs to finance her real passion: film. Having got her first break at the age of five, playing her mother’s on-screen daughter in the questionably titled Kung-Fu Master, Doillon went on to make other films, including two with her father. She first appeared on UK art-house screens aged 19 as a rebellious minx, next to a (slightly) more composed Charlotte Rampling, in Summer Things. “It was the first time I’d played a sexy girl,” Doillon says, and it certainly didn’t seem to do her career any harm. Pirelli has just featured her in its latest and one of its raciest calendars, alongside Penelope Cruz and Naomi Watts, and scheduled for release later this year is the quirky comedy Go Go Tales, also starring Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento, in which Doillon plays a club dancer.
Also out this year is Boxes, written and directed by and starring her mother, Jane Birkin. “It was very strange and lovely for me to do,” says Doillon, who co-stars in the film. “I mean, we’re a strange family, and we have a strange past. But this is my mother’s point of view. She films herself in a superharsh light: no retouching, nothing. It’s like, ‘Okay, 40 years ago I was an icon and this is where I am today.’ There is not one actress of her age that I have ever seen do such an open film about her life.”
But films are far from the only thing on Doillon’s agenda. “I loved spending time with Milla and Carmen, and I’ve learnt so much by seeing them work together. I’ve got so much respect for them, because I’ve seen so many people just give their names to a label and not be there. They’re in the factory six hours a day, checking every hem and button. I’ve always thought that if I started designing, it would have to be legitimate; I’d have to spend time at it. Milla has taught me that it is possible to make design compatible with film and whatever else you’re doing. I’ve been approached by a couple of brands in Paris that I may work with on a few ideas,” she says enigmatically.
She may also, it seems, be following in her half-sister Charlotte Gainsbourg’s footsteps down a more musical path — Gainsbourg released an album last year, 5:55, recorded with Air.
“I would love to do an album, but I believe in taking anything you’re serious about very slowly. I just did a song that’s being put out by Visionaire magazine, and next I want to play tiny bars in New York — that kind of thing, start small. I’m okay if I’ve done it the good way, that’s what my father taught me. You know, I’m the first one to be, like, ‘Who the f*** do you think you are?’ about myself. That is what’s constantly going through my mind. So if I gather enough courage to do it, I want to do it properly.”
Right now, there doesn’t seem to be any reason why she can’t do it all.
timesonline.co.uk
There's a video of Lou at the Pirelli calender launch at FTV
http://www.ftv.com/online/page.php?P=893&id=23306
http://www.ftv.com/online/page.php?P=893&id=23306
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This is a link to a podcast from TF1.fr featuring Lou from march 30th.
It's from behind the scenes before a show and Lou talks a lot.
http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/podcast/cadonneenvie/0,,3422308,00-chauffe-dans-coulisses-nikos-.html
It's from behind the scenes before a show and Lou talks a lot.
http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/podcast/cadonneenvie/0,,3422308,00-chauffe-dans-coulisses-nikos-.html
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Pictures from 'Les Mauvaises Fréquentations' (Yeah I know , the horror)
An interview with her at the Deauville film festival
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