20 posts tagged "Lou Doillon"
Lou Doillon Hits The Beach For Vanessa Bruno
French It girl Lou Doillon has been turning more and more heads lately, but she’s been a muse to designer Vanessa Bruno for years. Doillon stars once again in the latest of Bruno’s short films, Miracle, which she created with director Stéphanie Di Giusto to spotlight her Spring 2011 collection. Bruno opened her first store in L.A. last summer, and it looks like the city’s summery vibe has rubbed off on the Paris-based designer. Joining Doillon on screen is the label’s new U.S. ambassador, the Los Angeles-based model and girl-about-town Jessica Joffe, and the spot was shot on a gorgeous beach—though, admittedly, in Cuba, not L.A.
The Olsens Get Shady (Again), Victoria Beckham Begs Off, And More…
First The Row got eyewear, and now the Olsens are at it again, debuting two styles of specs for their Elizabeth and James line (pictured). In fairness, they are perennially bespectacled, so it makes sense. [WWD]
Menswear designer Michael Bastian is dipping a toe into the waters of womenswear with a women’s counterpart to his Gant by Michael Bastian line, which he’ll show in a coed presentation with men’s this New York fashion week. The Gant customer is “more of a fashion girl, not a classic preppy,” Bastian says. [WWD]
Lacoste helps fight the good fight with a new promotion to benefit Doctors Without Borders: Take any old polo to Lacoste’s NYC store on June 3, and get a certificate for a new one—plus the brand will donate $10 to the nonprofit, to boot. This is tied into the USA show Royal Pains, but try not to hold that against it. [Stylelist]
The Spice Girls are reportedly trying to reunite for a new tour, but Victoria Beckham apparently has moved on and doesn’t want to participate. It’s almost as if she had something else going on! [Jezebel]
And style icon Lou Doillon adds another gig to her résumé: photographer. Her first solo show has just bowed at Paris’ Galerie W. [Dazed Digital]
Letting The Light In
Last season, sheers ruled the runways—Dior to Dolce, Fendi to Ferré. (You can check them all out here.) And this season? They’re still here. See-through styles showed up at YSL, Stella McCartney, Givenchy, and Valentino, among others, but the point was really hammered home at Giambattista Valli’s dinner for Moncler Gamme Rouge last night in Paris. Valli girls including Heidi Mount and Jess Stam pictured), and Coco Brandolini went for gauzy frocks, baring plenty of skin. (So did Lou Doillon, in a chic, sheer jumpsuit that occasionally revealed more than she might have preferred.) The hand-wringers will continue to wonder, especially in this season of the power suit, how these will play at the office. But when your office is the runway…
Doillon, Danseuse
You already know Lou Doillon the muse, designer, actress, and all-around cool Parisienne. Now meet Lou the dancer. Doillon returns in the second installment of Vanessa Bruno’s ongoing video poem directed by Stéphanie Di Gusto, which goes live tomorrow on the designer’s Web site. Kitted out in Bruno’s designs, Doillon performs impromptu choreography in talc and goes for a quick frolic in the dunes, all set to a composition especially for her by the Canadian pianist Gonzales. “There’s something really primal about Lou; she has great freedom,” Di Gusto told Style.com. “We just left it up to her, and at one point, she just let go. There was talc all over the room.” We got a sneak peek, below.
Le Sport, C’est Chic
When it comes to good restaurants, even Francophiles agree that New York and Paris are just about even. But gyms? The Big Apple wins hands down. That is, until Klay opened in the City of Light’s Montorgueil neighborhood last month. It took owner Arthur Benzaquen (he also owns the tony Ken Club in the 16th arrondissement) three years to restore the Gustave Eiffel-era building into a five-story fitness nirvana, which has been described by one observer as a “very fashion model-singer-actress-Lou Doillon gym.” Shakira shook her groove thing there not long after it opened, and it’s all but guaranteed to be chock-full of catwalkers when Paris fashion week gets under way at the end of next month. If the yoga and Pilates classes and pool don’t win them over, its eatery, DEPUR, will. Jewelry designer-turned-decorator Josh Hickey did up the interiors in turn-of-the-century club mode. The terrace decor—currently picnic tables and imported Adirondack chairs—will change quarterly in proper modish fashion. Even we’d join a gym with privileges like that.