Mum's The Word: Jane & Lou

With mother’s day just a playful hop skip and a jump away, the intricacies of maternal love have consumed me. Yummy mummies have become a resilient fashion fad, but they rarely depict real life relationships between a mother and a child. The fascinating relationship between mother and daughter is a deeper connection that cannot be depicted by gloss and pap-snappy cameras. It is a connection that is formed at birth and the strongest of any woman’s natural instincts.One woman that defines this unique bond is Jane Birkin.The mother of 2 daughters; Charlotte Gainsbourg & Lou Doillon.Words collide when describing the beauty of Jane Birkin, as a woman and as a mother. Serious-sexual- sensitive-fragile-elegant-Jane Birkin has lived an intriguing plot of fashion and films for over thirty years; she is a natural heroine. Consumed in London-Brit, sixties hippy-dom Birkin is the barefoot protagonist that defined an era. She oozes sex appeal and self-assured wisdom, not to mention a complex form of beauty. Her humanitarian work with Amnesty International has led her to work with children in Bosnia, Rwanda and Palestine.Birkin has many material career credentials none of which particularly interest her. In 1966 she amused herself with London at the peak of the swinging sixties. She spent the majority of her career in France and quite aptly in ’69 released the scandalous “Je t’aime….moi non plus” which was subsequently banned in Europe, later becoming a commercial success. Jane’s sensuous lovemaking sighs became a hit around the world The salacious lyrics sung in a heavy, seductive French groan culminated in an orgasm.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHiMD...eature=relatedBirkin’s daughter Lou, inevitably inherited the “It” gene. She models, she styles, she lives a full, fashionable life. Affectionately referred to as a MAW (Model- Actress-Whatever) Her existence is: Catwalk, photo shoot, plane, Blackberry, glamour, intrigue, style….At the age of nine, her appearance was idiosyncratic, with Indian leggings under short dresses, worn with “Grateful Dead” T-shirts and rollerblades. Her mother’s individuality had bitten her and she made no apology for becoming a thoroughly modern wild child. By the time she was 11, she had tattoos, dreadlocks, a tongue piercing and a bad attitude. At fifteen she was rumoured to be involved in drugs and was pregnant at 19. Many argue modeling saved her, I say a stronger mother guided her.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVfBFHk-PQ&NR=1So how do these two giant worlds collide into a more tactile mother-daughter relationship? How does a sixties sex symbol and a naughties girl relate? "When my mother died last year, my three girls knew exactly what to do. They have intuition – you don’t have to ask them to come, they are by your side. It was my eldest daughter, who said to me, ‘You must let [your mother] go.’ She taught me how to let go. And at that moment I thought, ‘I am so lucky to have these girls.’ Birkin poignantly remarked in an interview with Madison magazine.See Jane sing with her daughter Charlotte: a sweet performance of two women who understand each other perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip3Lg2XAvGMMothers are our first and most powerful female role models, our most deeply ingrained beliefs about ourselves as women come from them. Behaviour in relationships, with our children, with food, with fashion, our partners and with ourselves is an expression of these attitudes. Once the mother-daughter bond is understood, we can explore our own self, regardless of age.“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new”. ~Rajneesh■ BexBella