Lou Doillon (born 4 September 1982) is a French model, singer, and actress. Her father is director Jacques Doillon and her mother is British actress and singer Jane Birkin. Read full biography of Lou Doillon →
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking... →
What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in... →
I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It's a good trick I learned from my... →
I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my... →
I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens'... →
My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to... →
To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of... →
I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy.
The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's... →
As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.
As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
Lou Doillon (born 4 September 1982) is a French model, singer, and actress. Her father is director Jacques Doillon and her mother is British actress and singer Jane Birkin.