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yuck....not a fan of her look there....not the tacky looking yellow satin dress nor the cigarette hanging out of her mouth...
not to mention those shoes...
not to mention those shoes...i quite like it
Oh me too! One of my favs!B)
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Glamour is in her jeans
Jess Cartner-Morley
May 29, 2008
Wild child Lou Doillon has turned her inherited sense of style into a fashion career with a collection for Lee Cooper.
If ever a woman was born to be a style icon, it's Lou Doillon. Her mother, after all, is Jane Birkin - '60s sex symbol, France's sweetheart, the grand passion of Serge Gainsbourg, immortalised by Hermes, who named a classic bag after her (an honour she shares with Grace Kelly). But Birkin's relationship with Lou's father, film director Jacques Doillon, ended her marriage to Gainsbourg, and because of that the French press have a love-hate relationship with Lou: on the one hand, she is a daughter of cultural aristocracy; on the other, her very existence symbolises the end of one of France's great love affairs.
When Lou was just nine and out shopping with her mother in Paris, a boutique owner asked if they could use Lou's look - leggings with a short dress and a shrunken Grateful Dead T-shirt - as the inspiration for their next collection. Lou, now 25, has grown up to be one of the most stylish women in Paris.
She has a front-row seat at any fashion show to which she feels like turning up, and every head in the place will turn to check out her outfit, which might be some so-hip-it-hurts concoction of vintage Chanel or classic Balenciaga with a Breton striped T-shirt or a top hat, all set off with the coltish legs she has inherited from her mother. In England, they have Kate Moss; in France, they have Lou. Every nation, it seems, requires a louche, chain-smoking bohemian beauty to set the trends and sex up the tabloids. Doillon has an eye for fashion and the figure and the confidence to carry off quirky styles, and, like Moss, has progressed beyond the conventional passive feminine role of the stylish dresser - that of muse to male fashion designers - to become a fashion designer in her own right, with a collection for jeans brand Lee Cooper.
The collection is half Artful Dodger, half Boulevard Saint-Germain. High-waisted trousers are borrowed from old-fashioned bellboy uniforms, frock coats from Oscar Wilde and Sgt Pepper, and mini-dungarees from old-fashioned nursery wear. It is a mix that reflects Doillon's character: while her dark, chic looks are very French, she sounds more English than any of the all-British crew on the photo shoot.
Drinking Earl Grey tea in a London hotel, Doillon tells me she feels very English. "At least I do when I'm in France. I shop an hour away from my home in order to get English products." Her five-year-old son, the child of her tempestuous relationship with American musician Thomas-John Mitchell, is named Marlowe after Christopher Marlowe. "But then as soon as I get here, I realise I'm not English at all. I'm not really at home anywhere. It's very strange." Her English side comes through in the Lee Cooper range, not only in its references but in its air of fancy dress. "I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that."
The French, she says, "don't do costumes. But in a way that's why they look so good. The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them. In France, you would never see a fat woman trying to dress like Kate Moss - they know they would look absurd. Instead, they dress to suit their body. You can be plump and be the sexiest woman on the planet, but not if you are dressing as if you were someone else."
Although Doillon is chatty and spirited, there is something strangely childish about her. Our conversation is a little like talking to a precocious child who is trying to be entertaining and clever to the grown-ups in order to put off being sent to bed. Her childhood was, by all accounts, an emotionally complicated one. Her mother considered her split from Gainsbourg the biggest mistake of her life, and never hid this - from Jacques, from Lou, or from the French media and public. When Lou was born, Gainsbourg sent baskets of cashmere bootees to the hospital, and appointed himself her godfather. He was such a central figure in her childhood that she called him "Papa Deux". But their close, if tangled, family unravelled when Lou was eight: Gainsbourg died, and Birkin's grief was so all-consuming that her marriage to Doillon ended soon after.
Gainsbourg famously recorded a duet called Lemon Incest with his daughter Charlotte, Lou's half-sister. She was just 13 and the video for the song showed her and her father on a bed together half undressed. Lou talks of how she got her love of stockings from Gainsbourg: "When I was little, my stepfather Serge was always talking about what was erotic. He explained that the reason stockings were erotic was because first you touch the nylon, and then you touch the rubber, and finally you touch skin. You have to go through these layers of wrapping, that's what makes it exciting." She cannot have been older than eight at the time.
Charlotte, Lou's older sister by 11 years, shares her distinctive combination of English bluestocking accent and French siren looks. They have carried their childhood roles over into adulthood - Charlotte, more obedient as a child, has become an established actor with a more recognisably chic style, while Lou remains the rebellious younger sister. The lives of Birkin and her daughters are forever tangled: in her autobiographical film, Boites, in which Birkin plays a fictional version of herself, she tells her middle daughter, "You are everything I wanted to be, only prettier!" In real life, Charlotte is Birkin's middle daughter, and the most conventionally beautiful of the family; on screen, the role was played by Lou.
Meanwhile, Lou's father, Jacques, whom she describes as "a hardcore antisocial intellectual living in Normandy", was determined that his daughter should be well educated, ensuring that, unlike her half-sisters, she grew up speaking English as well as French; he insisted that she read aloud to him every night from the age of six. (The family home never had a television, and Lou still does not own one.) Every summer Lou was dispatched to rural Wales, to the home of her mother's brother, Andrew Birkin - a screenwriter and filmmaker, he directed Charlotte in the adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel The Cement Garden.
Lou is not the type to play the victim but she has talked in the past about the effect the family dramas had on her. "I would see her [Birkin] crying for Serge, saying he was the only love of her life . . . and I would be thinking, 'Hey, guys, wait a second, I wouldn't be here if this hadn't happened.' " To add to her alienation in a family of great beauties, Lou inherited the exaggerated kind of looks that blossom late; as a little girl she did not feel she was pretty. "The gloomiest years of my life were between 12 and 13, when I was trying to find out who I was, looking everywhere to find me, and it didn't work; I didn't fit in." She rebelled, letting her hair tangle into dreadlocks, piercing her tongue, getting tattoos. In most of her teenage things, she "looked like a boy", she says matter-of-factly. She has been an actor since the age of five, when she played her mother's on-screen daughter in Kung Fu Master, but it was not until Summer Things (2002) and Saint Ange (2004) that she started to feel "a tiny bit pretty".
For all her glamour, there's still something a little bit lonely about Lou. Talking about her life now, and how she dresses for it, she says, "I feel like a little soldier, so I want to be in a little uniform." For her first sartorial battle, she has chosen the dreaded "whale tail".
"I started talking to women about what they liked and disliked in jeans, and everyone said they hated it when their knickers were showing. And then I asked boys if they thought that was erotic, and they said no."
Accordingly, a high, tiny waist is a constant in Doillon's Lee Cooper collection. "It makes you feel more protected, and not just because you don't get cold. That part of the body is about maternity; it's precious and fragile." The high waist also gives crucial definition to the body. "The silhouette is the most important thing in clothes. Every French girl knows that. High-waisted trousers give you long legs and a pretty bum which, after all, is what we all want."
Lou fell into modelling in her teens and, despite insisting she was absolutely hopeless at it, has landed high-profile catwalk and advertising jobs for Chanel, Givenchy and Missoni. A few years back, at a time when she was heartbroken over the death of her 20-year-old cousin Anno, son of her uncle Andrew, and had just split up with Thomas-John Mitchell, she met the model-turned-designer Milla Jovovich, who had been a great friend of Anno's. The two became close and so was born the idea of turning her natural style into a commercial venture, as Jovovich has done successfully with her label Jovovich-Hawk.
Lou's second collection for Lee Cooper has already been designed and she is working on a third. "I sew, I paint, I draw, I do pyrography [the craft of burning designs onto wood], I carve glass, I do patchwork, I make music." And in recent months she has been touring France with a solo performance, Intimate Letters, in which she reads love letters written by Edith Piaf, Napoleon and others.
"There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am," she says. "I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice; I'd love to be that girl."'
http://www.smh.com.au/news/fashion/glamour-is-in-her-jeans/2008/05/28/1211654092921.html?page=4
Jess Cartner-Morley
May 29, 2008
Wild child Lou Doillon has turned her inherited sense of style into a fashion career with a collection for Lee Cooper.
If ever a woman was born to be a style icon, it's Lou Doillon. Her mother, after all, is Jane Birkin - '60s sex symbol, France's sweetheart, the grand passion of Serge Gainsbourg, immortalised by Hermes, who named a classic bag after her (an honour she shares with Grace Kelly). But Birkin's relationship with Lou's father, film director Jacques Doillon, ended her marriage to Gainsbourg, and because of that the French press have a love-hate relationship with Lou: on the one hand, she is a daughter of cultural aristocracy; on the other, her very existence symbolises the end of one of France's great love affairs.
When Lou was just nine and out shopping with her mother in Paris, a boutique owner asked if they could use Lou's look - leggings with a short dress and a shrunken Grateful Dead T-shirt - as the inspiration for their next collection. Lou, now 25, has grown up to be one of the most stylish women in Paris.
She has a front-row seat at any fashion show to which she feels like turning up, and every head in the place will turn to check out her outfit, which might be some so-hip-it-hurts concoction of vintage Chanel or classic Balenciaga with a Breton striped T-shirt or a top hat, all set off with the coltish legs she has inherited from her mother. In England, they have Kate Moss; in France, they have Lou. Every nation, it seems, requires a louche, chain-smoking bohemian beauty to set the trends and sex up the tabloids. Doillon has an eye for fashion and the figure and the confidence to carry off quirky styles, and, like Moss, has progressed beyond the conventional passive feminine role of the stylish dresser - that of muse to male fashion designers - to become a fashion designer in her own right, with a collection for jeans brand Lee Cooper.
The collection is half Artful Dodger, half Boulevard Saint-Germain. High-waisted trousers are borrowed from old-fashioned bellboy uniforms, frock coats from Oscar Wilde and Sgt Pepper, and mini-dungarees from old-fashioned nursery wear. It is a mix that reflects Doillon's character: while her dark, chic looks are very French, she sounds more English than any of the all-British crew on the photo shoot.
Drinking Earl Grey tea in a London hotel, Doillon tells me she feels very English. "At least I do when I'm in France. I shop an hour away from my home in order to get English products." Her five-year-old son, the child of her tempestuous relationship with American musician Thomas-John Mitchell, is named Marlowe after Christopher Marlowe. "But then as soon as I get here, I realise I'm not English at all. I'm not really at home anywhere. It's very strange." Her English side comes through in the Lee Cooper range, not only in its references but in its air of fancy dress. "I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that."
The French, she says, "don't do costumes. But in a way that's why they look so good. The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them. In France, you would never see a fat woman trying to dress like Kate Moss - they know they would look absurd. Instead, they dress to suit their body. You can be plump and be the sexiest woman on the planet, but not if you are dressing as if you were someone else."
Although Doillon is chatty and spirited, there is something strangely childish about her. Our conversation is a little like talking to a precocious child who is trying to be entertaining and clever to the grown-ups in order to put off being sent to bed. Her childhood was, by all accounts, an emotionally complicated one. Her mother considered her split from Gainsbourg the biggest mistake of her life, and never hid this - from Jacques, from Lou, or from the French media and public. When Lou was born, Gainsbourg sent baskets of cashmere bootees to the hospital, and appointed himself her godfather. He was such a central figure in her childhood that she called him "Papa Deux". But their close, if tangled, family unravelled when Lou was eight: Gainsbourg died, and Birkin's grief was so all-consuming that her marriage to Doillon ended soon after.
Gainsbourg famously recorded a duet called Lemon Incest with his daughter Charlotte, Lou's half-sister. She was just 13 and the video for the song showed her and her father on a bed together half undressed. Lou talks of how she got her love of stockings from Gainsbourg: "When I was little, my stepfather Serge was always talking about what was erotic. He explained that the reason stockings were erotic was because first you touch the nylon, and then you touch the rubber, and finally you touch skin. You have to go through these layers of wrapping, that's what makes it exciting." She cannot have been older than eight at the time.
Charlotte, Lou's older sister by 11 years, shares her distinctive combination of English bluestocking accent and French siren looks. They have carried their childhood roles over into adulthood - Charlotte, more obedient as a child, has become an established actor with a more recognisably chic style, while Lou remains the rebellious younger sister. The lives of Birkin and her daughters are forever tangled: in her autobiographical film, Boites, in which Birkin plays a fictional version of herself, she tells her middle daughter, "You are everything I wanted to be, only prettier!" In real life, Charlotte is Birkin's middle daughter, and the most conventionally beautiful of the family; on screen, the role was played by Lou.
Meanwhile, Lou's father, Jacques, whom she describes as "a hardcore antisocial intellectual living in Normandy", was determined that his daughter should be well educated, ensuring that, unlike her half-sisters, she grew up speaking English as well as French; he insisted that she read aloud to him every night from the age of six. (The family home never had a television, and Lou still does not own one.) Every summer Lou was dispatched to rural Wales, to the home of her mother's brother, Andrew Birkin - a screenwriter and filmmaker, he directed Charlotte in the adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel The Cement Garden.
Lou is not the type to play the victim but she has talked in the past about the effect the family dramas had on her. "I would see her [Birkin] crying for Serge, saying he was the only love of her life . . . and I would be thinking, 'Hey, guys, wait a second, I wouldn't be here if this hadn't happened.' " To add to her alienation in a family of great beauties, Lou inherited the exaggerated kind of looks that blossom late; as a little girl she did not feel she was pretty. "The gloomiest years of my life were between 12 and 13, when I was trying to find out who I was, looking everywhere to find me, and it didn't work; I didn't fit in." She rebelled, letting her hair tangle into dreadlocks, piercing her tongue, getting tattoos. In most of her teenage things, she "looked like a boy", she says matter-of-factly. She has been an actor since the age of five, when she played her mother's on-screen daughter in Kung Fu Master, but it was not until Summer Things (2002) and Saint Ange (2004) that she started to feel "a tiny bit pretty".
For all her glamour, there's still something a little bit lonely about Lou. Talking about her life now, and how she dresses for it, she says, "I feel like a little soldier, so I want to be in a little uniform." For her first sartorial battle, she has chosen the dreaded "whale tail".
"I started talking to women about what they liked and disliked in jeans, and everyone said they hated it when their knickers were showing. And then I asked boys if they thought that was erotic, and they said no."
Accordingly, a high, tiny waist is a constant in Doillon's Lee Cooper collection. "It makes you feel more protected, and not just because you don't get cold. That part of the body is about maternity; it's precious and fragile." The high waist also gives crucial definition to the body. "The silhouette is the most important thing in clothes. Every French girl knows that. High-waisted trousers give you long legs and a pretty bum which, after all, is what we all want."
Lou fell into modelling in her teens and, despite insisting she was absolutely hopeless at it, has landed high-profile catwalk and advertising jobs for Chanel, Givenchy and Missoni. A few years back, at a time when she was heartbroken over the death of her 20-year-old cousin Anno, son of her uncle Andrew, and had just split up with Thomas-John Mitchell, she met the model-turned-designer Milla Jovovich, who had been a great friend of Anno's. The two became close and so was born the idea of turning her natural style into a commercial venture, as Jovovich has done successfully with her label Jovovich-Hawk.
Lou's second collection for Lee Cooper has already been designed and she is working on a third. "I sew, I paint, I draw, I do pyrography [the craft of burning designs onto wood], I carve glass, I do patchwork, I make music." And in recent months she has been touring France with a solo performance, Intimate Letters, in which she reads love letters written by Edith Piaf, Napoleon and others.
"There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am," she says. "I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice; I'd love to be that girl."'
http://www.smh.com.au/news/fashion/glamour-is-in-her-jeans/2008/05/28/1211654092921.html?page=4
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‘I can hitch up with SRK!’
French model and actress Lou Doillon describes herself as “born to showbiz”.
The model who has posed for the Pirelli calendar and walked the ramp for most top designers is in the city and loving the experience. “I love it here – there is a child-like innocence about India. It is so colourful, everyone seems to be smiling and the women here are so beautiful!” she says.
Lou is clued into Bollywood and Indian fashion too. “I have seen Devdas nine times. I love the movie. And Shah Rukh Khan is great. I wouldn’t mind working with him. I could be a lost French girl in India who gets hitched with this guy who gives her a lift in his car. And SRK could be the guy,” she says.
Lou has an interesting career and personal graph. “I was something of a rebel. I left my home at 15 for I wanted to work in the films and my parents didn’t want me to join it. I met a fashion agent when I was 17 – I had short red hair and had never worn heels or girly dresses. In fact I considered being pretty a catastrophe. But for the fashion world, I was quite a change from the Brazilian models that were a rage then. Before I knew it, I was confirmed for 13 shows!”
And how was the catwalk experience to begin with? “I was doing every show of Paris Fashion Week and I did not know why. I would laugh and blush on the ramp and be imperfect and people loved that. Vivienne Westwood decided that I would wear her showstoppers along with Jerry Hall. I was treated like a celeb and I was so thrilled. Now I have reached a stage when I do only special shows – just like a celeb!” Lou explains.
A mother at 19, Lou believes she got a little late getting there. “To have a child at the age of 19 wasn’t a surprise for me. In fact my father thought that I would have a child at 15! But my six-year-old son is my reason to stay grounded. He happily chats up Westwood or John Galliano, makes faces at Anna Wintour! He is crazy and my life,” says the doting mom.
source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
French model and actress Lou Doillon describes herself as “born to showbiz”.
The model who has posed for the Pirelli calendar and walked the ramp for most top designers is in the city and loving the experience. “I love it here – there is a child-like innocence about India. It is so colourful, everyone seems to be smiling and the women here are so beautiful!” she says.
Lou is clued into Bollywood and Indian fashion too. “I have seen Devdas nine times. I love the movie. And Shah Rukh Khan is great. I wouldn’t mind working with him. I could be a lost French girl in India who gets hitched with this guy who gives her a lift in his car. And SRK could be the guy,” she says.
Lou has an interesting career and personal graph. “I was something of a rebel. I left my home at 15 for I wanted to work in the films and my parents didn’t want me to join it. I met a fashion agent when I was 17 – I had short red hair and had never worn heels or girly dresses. In fact I considered being pretty a catastrophe. But for the fashion world, I was quite a change from the Brazilian models that were a rage then. Before I knew it, I was confirmed for 13 shows!”
And how was the catwalk experience to begin with? “I was doing every show of Paris Fashion Week and I did not know why. I would laugh and blush on the ramp and be imperfect and people loved that. Vivienne Westwood decided that I would wear her showstoppers along with Jerry Hall. I was treated like a celeb and I was so thrilled. Now I have reached a stage when I do only special shows – just like a celeb!” Lou explains.
A mother at 19, Lou believes she got a little late getting there. “To have a child at the age of 19 wasn’t a surprise for me. In fact my father thought that I would have a child at 15! But my six-year-old son is my reason to stay grounded. He happily chats up Westwood or John Galliano, makes faces at Anna Wintour! He is crazy and my life,” says the doting mom.
source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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she comes across as really lacking humility sometimes... 
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