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Salma Hayek: my fashion mogul husband still pays for all my clothes
Sitting on a sofa in a plush Knightsbridge hotel, Salma Hayek is every bit as beautiful as she appears on screen. She's unexpectedly petite and the bombshell curves she highlights so magnificently on the red carpet are hidden beneath a black top and on-trend bottle green pleated leather midi skirt.
She's in London to promote her latest film, the Oliver Stone-directed thriller Savages , in which she plays Elena, the formidable empress of a notorious Mexican drugs cartel.
Elena has a unique style. She sports the same gobstopper-sized diamond necklace and Cleopatra-style wig throughout the film. Hayek had strong ideas about how she wanted her to look, ideas which she says Stone initially resisted against before relenting and allowing her creative control over the character.
"I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by," she says. "They have a look, and I think that this woman felt that in order to survive in that world and command this army of savages, she had to create a character. She had to create a character, a memorable character." She cites Cleopatra and US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour as women who have done just that.
The diamond necklace - which she tells us is in fact a piece of Bottega Veneta costume jewellery - was a particularly important aspect of Elena's character and something Hayek took from "a very powerful" and "very feared" Mexican woman with whom she became friends whilst filming her Oscar-nominated role in Frida in 2002, although she won't name names.
"I would come see her in the morning and she would have a glass of Champagne and these diamonds that were this big [she cups her hands to demonstrate the size] on her fingers at 10/11 o'clock in the morning and I asked her: 'Why do you wear them?' And she said, 'because one must never forget - these remind me of who I am and what I've meant to the people that gave them to me. But it's also so that the other ones don't forget either.' So I thought this was something that Elena would do… in my head it was given by the husband, so it was like the crown, so that they'd never forget the [late] husband, or who she was and what she had accomplished."
Hayek's real-life husband is similarly powerful, and equally as capable of providing her with knockout jewels. In 2009, she married multi-billionaire François-Henri Pinault, the CEO of PPR, the company that owns the likes of Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Stella McCartney, Yves Saint Lauren and Bottega Veneta (yes, the brand from which she sourced Elena's necklace). Together they have a five-year-old daughter, Valentina, and Pinault also has two children from his first marriage as well as a son with supermodel Linda Evangelista - with whom he was involved in a high-profile court battle over maintenance payments earlier this year.
I ask what it's like to have access to clothes by some of the world's most talented designers, the stuff of many a girl's dreams.
"I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really," she says. "And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?! There's no ending to that question!"
She's also quick to point out that there are, surprisingly, no Gucci/McQueen/YSL freebies. "He [François-Henri] still pays for it, so I feel always like I can't just go and take anything I want, you know? I could, because he is really nice to me, but I always feel I cannot become that, some crazy woman that comes and takes half the store." Sarah Burton is her favoured designer - she calls her a "genius" who "shapes clothing for women like me".
Her fashion connections also mean she's had "a little peek" of Hedi Slimane 's debut womenswear collection for Yves Saint Laurent, or Saint Laurent as it is now called , which will be shown in Paris on October 1. "It's extraordinary!" she enthuses, throwing her head back as she does so. Well, it must be good then.
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