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 The French will see our alarm over inappropriate photos of 10-year-old model Thylane Blondeau and raise us a line of lingerie for girls ages four through 12, and the accompanying images styled to look like a sensual bedroom romp. 
 
 According to Jours Après Lunes' website, it's "the first designer brand dedicated to ‘loungerie' for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside." The line was created by Sophie Morin, a designer who's worked for major adult lingerie brands, and adapts elements of adult undies like ribbons, lace, frills, but "always with the utmost respect for comfort" — if not age appropriateness. 
 
 The problem here is more the way the girls were photographed than the items themselves. The line for babies ages three months to 36 months consists of adorable retro/nautical onesies, and there's nothing unusual about their poses (possibly because infants lack the motor skills necessary to make SexyFace). 
 
 The trouble starts when you move on to the "fille" section. You may question why a five-year-old needs a matching bra and panty set, but you could probably find girls in a similar striped black and white bikini on any beach. The bigger issue is that, as Fashionista puts it, the girls, "are styled like grown women with Amy Winehouse hair, sunglasses and pearls and there are a few instances of Thylane Blondeau-esque seductive gazing and reclining poses." A girl lays back in a knotted top that would fall just below her breasts if she had any, and another is caught applying a Toddlers & Tiaras-worthy amount of makeup while lounging in her underwear. 
 
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 Things get even worse with the teen garments. Apparently there wasn't enough girl/woman dichotomy in showing a model who looks about 13 in a frilly bra and panty set, so the girl gets a tousled, Bridget Bardot-style hairdo and a giant teddy bear to cling to. (However, we can't criticize this shot of the same model hanging out with her sister sans pants because she's reading Kafka. They're just trying to promote teen literacy!) 
 
 As we mentioned earlier, it feels wrong to even identify shots featuring such young models as "sexy," but it's obvious that the adults who produced these images intentionally inserted elements that would read as sexual for adult models. Plus, while there's a "playing dress up" element to some of these pictures, we're taking about ads for kiddie lingerie, not an artsy Vogue spread that seems to reference the fashion industry's fraught relationship with young models. 
 
 Maybe it's unwise to throw stones at the French brand when pretty much every mall in America has a Victoria's Secret Pink outpost selling lingerie to teens (oh, sorry — college students, because the brand is definitely aimed at 18 to 24-year-olds). But we will say that whether it comes from France or the U.S., the last thing we need is more images that sexualize young girls. 
 
 New French Lingerie Line Jours Après Lunes Is for Girls Ages Four Through 12–Cute or Crossing the Line? [Fashionista] 
 
 Jours Après Lunes 
 
 Earlier: Fashion Industry Salivates Over Creepy Photos Of 10-Year-Old French Girl 
 
 Controversial 10-Year-Old Model's Mom Doesn't Quite Get It ||||| Here's a new development in the neverending saga that is France’s apparent disregard for age-appropriateness (or our extreme prudishness and over-sensitivity–depending on your persective): a new line of “loungerie” (that’s lingerie plus loungewear) for girls aged three months and up has just been brought to our attention. It’s called Jours Après Lunes, and it bills itself as “the first designer brand dedicated to ‘loungerie’ for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside.” 
 
 It basically looks like lingerie–with maybe a tad more coverage–and would be totally okay for adults to wear but Jours Après Lunes is producing this stuff for girls ages 4-12 (the “loungerie” for the 3 month – 36 month age range is actually age-appropriate and cute, thankfully), so that mother and daughter can match. According to the site, the designer has a long background in designing lingerie (for grown ups) and she’s designed a “femme” collection for the over-tween set. 
 
 What’s disturbing about Jours Après Lunes is not just the fact that it’s lingerie for people who probably shouldn’t be old enough to even know what lingerie is, but the photographs on their website. The little “filles” are styled like grown women with Amy Winehouse hair, sunglasses and pearls and there are a few instances of Thylane Blondeau-esque seductive gazing and reclining poses. 
 
 We now know what Thylane Blondeau’s mother was talking about when she said her daughter’s French Vogue spread wasn’t that bad–at least Thylane was fully clothed! 
 
 Despite being more age-appropriate, even the photographs for the "femme" collection are unsettling. The way the young-looking model is posed with that sunglasses-wearing teddy bear--she's made to look like a child, while the actual children are made to look like adults. 
 
 What do you think? Should four-year-olds be hanging out in bras and panties...with nothing over them...with pearls? Is there any context in which that makes sense? 
 
 Take a look at the collection.
– What 4-year-old doesn't need a frilly bra and panty set? A French fashion line of lingerie aimed at children and teenage girls is making awkward waves thanks to photos of young models in risquè outfits and seductive poses, reports Fashionista. Jours Après Lunes claims to be "the first designer brand dedicated to ‘loungerie' for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside." The website for the line designed by adult lingerie veteran Sophie Morin has collections for girls ages 3 months to 36 months, 4 to 12, and 13 and up. The set for the babies is "actually age-appropriate and cute, thankfully," writes Dhani Mau, but the others are little disturbing, especially because of the way the girls are posed in the photos. "Maybe it's unwise to throw stones at the French brand when pretty much every mall in America has a Victoria's Secret Pink outpost selling lingerie to teens," writes Margaret Hartmann at Jezebel. "But we will say that whether it comes from France or the U.S., the last thing we need is more images that sexualize young girls." (French Vogue recently caused a flap with a 10-year-old cover model.)