Oscar Winner Cotillard to Become a Bag Lady

One of France's lovely gifts to the rest of the world, actress Marion Cotillard, is in talks with Dior to be the face for the Lady Dior bag campaign. The bag has been around since 1995 and was made famous when Princess Diana carried it on a day out. (Wouldn't we kill to know what was in it. Do you think there just might have been a half-unwrapped hard candy stuck to the lining?).

I tend to cringe when I see actresses and singers doing clothing and cosmetics ads, but this aversion doesn't apply to those from France. These goddesses are from a different world and flutter high above their stateside counterparts. In my humble opinion. Except for Maggie Gyllenhaal. Her doing Miu Miu made sense. Eva Longoria - I don't need to see her anymore in anything relating to fashion or beauty. She's even on TV here in the UK doing adverts.

What it is funny, though, is that here the advertising standards are far stricter than North America with regards to claims. So when we see the Desperate Housewife in a L'Oreal mascara commercial with lashes that look as if two hedgehogs have rested on her eyelids, there's a statement along the bottom of the screen - that is actually large enough to be legible - admitting that there has been some post-production enhancement. We all know this of course, but it sure is nice to be let in on the 'secret'.