PetitPuppy
Active Member
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2005
- Messages
- 2,314
- Reaction score
- 5
Doesn't matter the photos are great anyways!
Lou Doillon
- Thread starter zoelemon
- Start date
DiamondSea
she had boys in her room
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2008
- Messages
- 4,788
- Reaction score
- 2
I agree that it was really stupid of her to say there's nothing she'd change in the world 
Still, she looks lovely in the pictures 
Still, she looks lovely in the pictures MARLOWE TIGER
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2005
- Messages
- 4,280
- Reaction score
- 7
I cant speak german,but Id love to see the small pix of Lou ith her son.(theyre so rarefrom a German magazine called "Annabelle"
[it is possible to make the text of the interview bigger if someone is able to translate it]
).Thanx for posting that beautiful ed laisla (karma)
MARLOWE TIGER
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2005
- Messages
- 4,280
- Reaction score
- 7
She looks great in the "playboy' ed.None of the pix are tacky.
I actually find her quite stylish -especially in the full frontal nudity photos.B)
I actually find her quite stylish -especially in the full frontal nudity photos.B)
type that interview of Lou, please?
Diamond Star
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2005
- Messages
- 4,915
- Reaction score
- 8
Interview from Guardian.co.uk:
Her mother is Jane Birkin, actor and 60s sex symbol, her stepfather the legendary Serge Gainsbourg and her half-sister the actor Charlotte Gainsbourg. Now Lou Doillon is a star in her own right. Jess Cartner-Morley meets the designer, model and style queen of Paris
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 Hermès, 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 this 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 - Indian 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, that incredible bedroom hair and lips made for Gauloises. In England, we 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 traditional 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 photoshoot.
Drinking Earl Grey tea in the drawing room of 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 good company, 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 for ever tangled: in her autobiographical film, Boîtes, 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 grow 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 despatched to rural Wales, to the home of her mother's brother, Andrew Birkin - a screenwriter and film-maker, he directed Charlotte in the adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, The Cement Garden.
Her mother is Jane Birkin, actor and 60s sex symbol, her stepfather the legendary Serge Gainsbourg and her half-sister the actor Charlotte Gainsbourg. Now Lou Doillon is a star in her own right. Jess Cartner-Morley meets the designer, model and style queen of Paris
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 Hermès, 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 this 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 - Indian 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, that incredible bedroom hair and lips made for Gauloises. In England, we 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 traditional 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 photoshoot.
Drinking Earl Grey tea in the drawing room of 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 good company, 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 for ever tangled: in her autobiographical film, Boîtes, 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 grow 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 despatched to rural Wales, to the home of her mother's brother, Andrew Birkin - a screenwriter and film-maker, he directed Charlotte in the adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, The Cement Garden.
Diamond Star
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2005
- Messages
- 4,915
- Reaction score
- 8
^continued
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 searching in magazines, 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". (This, as anyone who has seen these films will know, is something of an understatement.)
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 - Lou says they share an interest in physics - 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 on to 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."
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 searching in magazines, 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". (This, as anyone who has seen these films will know, is something of an understatement.)
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 - Lou says they share an interest in physics - 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 on to 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."
brokenenglish
Deep Red Bells
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2005
- Messages
- 7,784
- Reaction score
- 7
Sort of like nanker phledge (I believe it was her) was saying a few pages back about Lou and how she tries to come across a certain way.
Thanks for posting Diamond Star!
Last edited by a moderator:
Diamond Star
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2005
- Messages
- 4,915
- Reaction score
- 8
Managed to get a copy of the Guardian, you're right the photos are beautiful
{scanned from The Guardian Weekend magazine}
Thank you, Diamond Star 
the pics are wonderful.
Here's a translation of the Annabelle interview
„I slept in Mama’s Birkin-bag“
No wonder her unconventional style is copied by others: Lou Doillon is the youngest daughter of 60s icon Jane Birkin. The 25 year old about fashion, her mother and her own maternity.
Her Wellingtons leave a fine track of mud on the floor of the Parisian Photo studio. Lou Doillon comes from the Kindergarten playground where she had brought her son Marlowe (6) to.
With the boots she’s wearing Jeans shorts, a faded T-shirt of the Chicago Bulls and a military parka. Her hair is still wet from the early morning shower and hanging into her face with the big mouth she clearly has from her mother. After coffee and cigarette Lou is ready for the interview.
Annabelle: Lou Doillon, which is the best fashion tip you got from you mother Jane Birkin?
Lou Doillon: Not to care about trends. At our home fashion magazines were forbidden. My mother doesn’t care about fashion, never goes shopping – and still she is one of the most elegant women I know. She taught me how to find my own style.
A: How would you describe your own Style?
Lou: Very historic in a modern way. I love vintage fashion and old theater costumes. As an actress I am as lucky to be able to rummage the clothes fund for hours and I always find treasures. Like the top hat that I wear all the time lately.
A: Model, actress and now designer. You got a lot of work, do you see your son often?
Lou: Every day if it’s possible. Of course, my man and I have a nanny for emergencies, but whenever it is possible I take him with me. If he wasn’t at the Kindergarten today he’d be here at the studio with me.
A: Does that work?
Lou: Yes, absolutely. Marlowe is used to it, I take him with me since he’s been a baby.
Even if it takes 10 hours: My son plays silently or watches us. I even take him to clubs or concerts. Because the staff knows me they allow me to take the child with me. Recently, we’ve been at the Bob Dylan concert but he was too old for him.
A: With 19 you got pregnant, unexpectedly, how was that?
Lou: Crazy, because I didn’t want any children at that time. I wanted to party and, like my mother and Grandmother, be an actress. My apartment was just about 30 sqaure meters big and I didn’t have much money.
A: How did you manage to become a good mother though?
Lou: By deciding to raise him the African way from the very beginning.
A: What exactly do you mean?
Lou: Psycho analytics say there are two methods of education nowadays: the modern and the African which I chose. That means that my son had to adapt himself to my life - not vice versa. My older sister Charlotte for instance always wanted children and now has two. After the birth of her first child she completely changed her life. Now, it’s all about the children.
I, personally, don’t think it’s good if a child gets too much attention. But every mother has to decide for herself about it.
A: How did your mother raise you?
Lou: Definitely à l’africaine. My mother took me everywhere she went. Hérmes designed the Birkin bag for her, bigger than the Kelly bag, with two handles instead of one. She could put me in there as a baby. I lay in it, covered with her stuff and she carried me around to the studio or filmsets.
A: What else did you learn about raising a child from your mother?
Lou: Basically, I have taken over her relaxed nature. She’s never been afraid about me. I always meet people telling me “ I babysitted you for one night” When my mother had to give an interview on the street she would pass me on to complete strangers without hesitation.
A: Were there moments where it was hard to be the daughter of the famous Jane Birkin?
Lou: Yes. For example when we wanted to go to the park but had to go home again because there were so many fans asking for autographs. So much that she said ”Let’s better go home”
A: How did you react?
Lou: I hated those fans, that didn’t notice me, stepped on my feet and pushed me aside just to get to my mother. I often had panic when I didn’t see my mom anymore at concerts or premieres because of all the fans and Paparazzi.
A: Wasn’t your mother able to protect you?
Lou: She tried her best. She’d hide me under her big fur coat for instance. I still know this scent, a mixture of fur and her perfume. Under this coat I felt safe.
A: Do you reproach your mother with such situations?
Lou: At that time I often whished she wouldn’t be that famous. Why couldn’t she just be a normal mother? Even at my birthday people just came because of her. As a child I swore I’d never get as famous as her.
A: But you’re on the way to be, right now.
Lou: Unfortunately. The paparazzi were after me quite early just because I am the daughter of Jane Birkin. My first cigarette, the first time I did drugs, my first love affair – everything was documented by the media. And today, as an actress and model there are more and more people recognizing me.
A: How do you cope with this?
Lou: By withdrawing myself. If I don’t feel well I hide in the three libraries of my apartment for days. I own more than 10 000 books. I enjoy the most to read biographies of historic Women and I study how they dressed. Those costumes inspired me for my collection for Lee Cooper. If it’s necessary I’ll disappear for weeks.
I regularly frighten my family, friends and agents by that. But I can’t change it.
A: You are a model, an actress and a designer. Which role do you think fits the most to you?
Lou: That in-between. I’m actually just Lou who likes to act, pose and design clothes. A curious person that likes to add a personal note to things.
Already as a child I had to be different form my sisters and my parents: my Jeans that I cut and coloured or the walls of my room that I painted in an extravagant colour.
A: So you don’t want to stick to only one role then?
Lou: My friends say I have too much character for a model or actress anyways. Maybe that’s true: I really am not neutral enough. I took a while for me to recognize. Today I’m proud of my personality.
That article also says "together with her 6 year old son Marlowe and her man [not quite sure on how to translate, it actually means husband in German], who plays in a rockband, the 25 year old lives in the 11th Arrondissement in Paris"
the pics are wonderful.Here's a translation of the Annabelle interview
„I slept in Mama’s Birkin-bag“
No wonder her unconventional style is copied by others: Lou Doillon is the youngest daughter of 60s icon Jane Birkin. The 25 year old about fashion, her mother and her own maternity.
Her Wellingtons leave a fine track of mud on the floor of the Parisian Photo studio. Lou Doillon comes from the Kindergarten playground where she had brought her son Marlowe (6) to.
With the boots she’s wearing Jeans shorts, a faded T-shirt of the Chicago Bulls and a military parka. Her hair is still wet from the early morning shower and hanging into her face with the big mouth she clearly has from her mother. After coffee and cigarette Lou is ready for the interview.
Annabelle: Lou Doillon, which is the best fashion tip you got from you mother Jane Birkin?
Lou Doillon: Not to care about trends. At our home fashion magazines were forbidden. My mother doesn’t care about fashion, never goes shopping – and still she is one of the most elegant women I know. She taught me how to find my own style.
A: How would you describe your own Style?
Lou: Very historic in a modern way. I love vintage fashion and old theater costumes. As an actress I am as lucky to be able to rummage the clothes fund for hours and I always find treasures. Like the top hat that I wear all the time lately.
A: Model, actress and now designer. You got a lot of work, do you see your son often?
Lou: Every day if it’s possible. Of course, my man and I have a nanny for emergencies, but whenever it is possible I take him with me. If he wasn’t at the Kindergarten today he’d be here at the studio with me.
A: Does that work?
Lou: Yes, absolutely. Marlowe is used to it, I take him with me since he’s been a baby.
Even if it takes 10 hours: My son plays silently or watches us. I even take him to clubs or concerts. Because the staff knows me they allow me to take the child with me. Recently, we’ve been at the Bob Dylan concert but he was too old for him.
A: With 19 you got pregnant, unexpectedly, how was that?
Lou: Crazy, because I didn’t want any children at that time. I wanted to party and, like my mother and Grandmother, be an actress. My apartment was just about 30 sqaure meters big and I didn’t have much money.
A: How did you manage to become a good mother though?
Lou: By deciding to raise him the African way from the very beginning.
A: What exactly do you mean?
Lou: Psycho analytics say there are two methods of education nowadays: the modern and the African which I chose. That means that my son had to adapt himself to my life - not vice versa. My older sister Charlotte for instance always wanted children and now has two. After the birth of her first child she completely changed her life. Now, it’s all about the children.
I, personally, don’t think it’s good if a child gets too much attention. But every mother has to decide for herself about it.
A: How did your mother raise you?
Lou: Definitely à l’africaine. My mother took me everywhere she went. Hérmes designed the Birkin bag for her, bigger than the Kelly bag, with two handles instead of one. She could put me in there as a baby. I lay in it, covered with her stuff and she carried me around to the studio or filmsets.
A: What else did you learn about raising a child from your mother?
Lou: Basically, I have taken over her relaxed nature. She’s never been afraid about me. I always meet people telling me “ I babysitted you for one night” When my mother had to give an interview on the street she would pass me on to complete strangers without hesitation.
A: Were there moments where it was hard to be the daughter of the famous Jane Birkin?
Lou: Yes. For example when we wanted to go to the park but had to go home again because there were so many fans asking for autographs. So much that she said ”Let’s better go home”
A: How did you react?
Lou: I hated those fans, that didn’t notice me, stepped on my feet and pushed me aside just to get to my mother. I often had panic when I didn’t see my mom anymore at concerts or premieres because of all the fans and Paparazzi.
A: Wasn’t your mother able to protect you?
Lou: She tried her best. She’d hide me under her big fur coat for instance. I still know this scent, a mixture of fur and her perfume. Under this coat I felt safe.
A: Do you reproach your mother with such situations?
Lou: At that time I often whished she wouldn’t be that famous. Why couldn’t she just be a normal mother? Even at my birthday people just came because of her. As a child I swore I’d never get as famous as her.
A: But you’re on the way to be, right now.
Lou: Unfortunately. The paparazzi were after me quite early just because I am the daughter of Jane Birkin. My first cigarette, the first time I did drugs, my first love affair – everything was documented by the media. And today, as an actress and model there are more and more people recognizing me.
A: How do you cope with this?
Lou: By withdrawing myself. If I don’t feel well I hide in the three libraries of my apartment for days. I own more than 10 000 books. I enjoy the most to read biographies of historic Women and I study how they dressed. Those costumes inspired me for my collection for Lee Cooper. If it’s necessary I’ll disappear for weeks.
I regularly frighten my family, friends and agents by that. But I can’t change it.
A: You are a model, an actress and a designer. Which role do you think fits the most to you?
Lou: That in-between. I’m actually just Lou who likes to act, pose and design clothes. A curious person that likes to add a personal note to things.
Already as a child I had to be different form my sisters and my parents: my Jeans that I cut and coloured or the walls of my room that I painted in an extravagant colour.
A: So you don’t want to stick to only one role then?
Lou: My friends say I have too much character for a model or actress anyways. Maybe that’s true: I really am not neutral enough. I took a while for me to recognize. Today I’m proud of my personality.
That article also says "together with her 6 year old son Marlowe and her man [not quite sure on how to translate, it actually means husband in German
], who plays in a rockband, the 25 year old lives in the 11th Arrondissement in Paris"Working Girl
Active Member
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2007
- Messages
- 1,092
- Reaction score
- 1
She is definitely opinionated. But still young which you can see from her answers. Her and Charlotte seem like two different people.
** Thanks everyone for the articles and pictures****
** Thanks everyone for the articles and pictures****
Last edited by a moderator:
I find it funny her mother carried her in the Birkin bag when she was a baby 
Though Im not sure if she is being serious is some answers...guess she really isn't the overly maternal type...I understand...I wouldn't be either
Though Im not sure if she is being serious is some answers...guess she really isn't the overly maternal type...I understand...I wouldn't be either
Last edited by a moderator:
nanker_phledge
Active Member
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2005
- Messages
- 1,257
- Reaction score
- 3
Diamond Star
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2005
- Messages
- 4,915
- Reaction score
- 8
I guess the French tabloids/magazines?Where did she read that kind of stuff ?
MARLOWE TIGER
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2005
- Messages
- 4,280
- Reaction score
- 7
Well Charlotte being 11 years older than Lou,I guess thats explain why shes more mature than Loulou.
Similar Threads
Users who are viewing this thread
New Posts
-
-
-
-
-
Versace Eyewear F/W 2025.26 : Joseph Quinn & Aimee Lou Wood by Blommers & Schumm (9 Viewers)
- Latest: 90sfan