Lou

LOU DOILLON
Hometown: Paris
Where do you live? Paris, and a little bit here and everywhere.
What do you do? I live adventures, on films, in theaters, in studios, painting, singing, being a mother, reading, listening, running the house with my son!
What are you working on now? A painting and rehearsing a play for March, and drawing a little fashion line for the French brand La Redoute.
Favorite song: I hate favorites. This week, it’s “Lady Grinning Soul” by David Bowie. Tomorrow, I don’t know.

Favorite artist: The same. Could be Patti Smith, Annette Messager, Dorothy Parker, Bukowski, Schiele. Thank God the list is long!
Describe your personal style. French Revolution meets Joséphine, which meets Millais’s Ophelia, wearing Degas’ tutu, Toulouse-Lautrec’s green stockings, Mary Poppins’s boots, and the Artful Dodger’s top hat, kind of with an air hostess hat.
Who’s the sexiest person that ever lived? Lucifer in Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Where do you see yourself in ten years? In a lab-house in the country with the people I care about, and lots of children.
What’s your hidden talent? They’re all hidden. Talents come out when people take the time to greet them.
If you had to choose between love and independence, which would it be? Love. Actual love is free. Sometimes we forget but true love has nothing to do with dependency. Love doesn’t even have to do with being there. There’s nothing to choose from. You just have to seek the balance and reach for the best in you. It’s hard but I’m proud to love a free man, and I think he feels the same.