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March 3, 2008 2:57 pm
Upstairs at Lapérouse last night, Lou Doillon was dressed like the Artful Dodger, down to her top hat and boutonniere. “Women in France often dress like men—look at Chanel, YSL’s smoking, or Colette,” she said. “I’m always outdoors, and I love the runaway look.” The party was to celebrate her new role as designer for Lee Cooper, and Doillon was in saleswoman mode, unrolling the buttoned cuff of her wide-legged trousers to show how they could be adapted for high heels, and noting that her bustier top was a prototype. For fall, her vision is more “Jules et Jim.” “I keep thinking of the scene where the Jeanne Moreau character is running on the bridge dressed as a boy. It’s about images and imagery.” Also, there was another woman who knows a thing or two about images and imagery—Doillon’s mother, Jane Birkin. “She was so furtive about the party tonight,” Birkin said of her daughter. “I thought I’d do her proud by wearing a skirt, when she knows I love wearing trousers 100 times too big.” Doillon, she added, is a fashion natural. “She’d always wear a jacket of mine with trousers that belonged to her father.”
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