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Skinny Genes.(Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon)

Vogue

| April 01, 2009 | Mower, Sarah | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon are the daughters and guardians of the French avant-garde. Sarah Mower meets the two spirited sisters who treat being thin like a birthright.

French women don't get fat. They have je ne sais quoi . They are bien dans leur peau. They invented chic. They have mystique. If jeune, they are often branchA[c]. And sometimes they're jolie laide into the bargaina quality we rest-of-the-worlders can't for the life of us understand but that turns out in the flesh to be yet more annoyingly attractive than conventional prettiness. Oh, the gritting of teeth and the narrowing of eyes those French clichA[c]s inspire among the Anglo-Saxon ...

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