>> INSIDER WIRE —Watch out, Colette? Attending shows, posing for editorials, and designing for Lee Cooper isn't enough fashion involvement for Lou Doillon: She's scouting a location in Paris to open a concept store as early as next year: "We’ll have a mix of fashion, literature, modern and old, with more of an English than French influence, and not conventional." [WWD]
>> THE MODELIZER — Are tattooed Texan Cole Mohr and French face Lou Doillon an item? The two were spotted on Saturday, the Lower East Side in New York, sharing a meal and a few kisses, too . . . [ONTD_FF]
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Sophie Theallet Thinks in Color for Spring 2009
>> I've been noticing a more concerted effort by designers to cast models of color this season, but so far, Sophie Theallet takes the cake. For her New York runway debut, the Brooklyn-based Parisian designer sent out an entire cast of black models — Kinee Diouf, Honorine Uwera, Ataui Deng — the works. It was her training — ten years under the wing of Azzedine Alaia — that first brought the likes of Vogue's Grace Coddington, New York Times's Cathy Horyn, Lou Doillon, and Vogue Paris' Melanie Huynh out of the woodwork, but I bet as they left the Altman Building this morning, the model imagery was on their minds — it was on mine.
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I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess — I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent. I always laugh today thinking if I ran into my younger self, she would slap me. Wearing designer clothes was like selling my soul to the devil.
anouck: it's what's for dinner
>> I don't know if I'm just noticing this or what, but Playboy France is really starting to get fashiony — Karl Lagerfeld shot last October's cover, Lou Doillon was on the March cover (NSFW), and now Anouck Lepere is featured front and center on the June 2008 cover with her new bob, as shot by Rankin. I wonder if it's a coincidence that her fiance Jefferson Hack is profiled inside . . .
To see more of Anouck (literally), go here and here (NSFW).
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