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Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR
Having Jane Birkin as your mother and Charlotte Gainsbourg as your half-sister, you're as likely to possess an innate preternatural chic strongly imprinted in your genetic code as you are a lithe Parisian figure and a tousled brown mane. This sixth sense is so well honed in this month's It Girl that when she was nine, a London shop asked if it could import her style--Indian leggings under short dresses, tiny Grateful Dead T-shirts, and Rollerblades--for one of its collections. Doillon has been tapped yet again to re-create her je ne sais quoi in a capsule collection for English workwear brand Lee Cooper.
"Fashion designer" is only the latest in a succession of hats Doillon has donned in her 26 years. She has been an actress (making her film debut in Kung-Fu Master at five), model (she's a Givenchy muse and a Pirelli calendar girl), and a mother (to Marlowe ...