Zoe Saldana, MaxMaras Face of the Future, at Milan Fashion Week

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Milan Fashion Week Published: 3:28PM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

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The "Avatar" star, Zoe Saldana, declared progressing this week as "The Face of the Future", was mobbed by photographers and camera crews when she arrived at the MaxMara show at Milan Fashion Week, notwithstanding being golden rather than splendid blue.

There was not a snippet of blue make-up to be seen, nor a tail the approach audiences know her, as the outlandish Na Vi princess, Neytiri, in James Camerons, Oscar-nominated blockbuster.

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Instead, Saldana wore a metallic, figure-hugging bullion skirt from subsequent autumn/winters pick up by MaxMara, one of the majority classical of old-established, Italian, family brands.

Her Avatar "blue look", she said, was, in fact, not make-up at all, but was completed by suit constraint technology.

MaxMara chose Saldana as the "Face of the Future" in approval of her talent, character and grace. She will embrace her endowment at the Women in Film Crystal & Lucy gala, in Los Angeles, in June.

Before that, however, there is the small make a difference of The Oscars, subsequent Sunday. Saldana certified she was only similar to any alternative lady and had not nonetheless motionless what she would wear on the red carpet.

"Ive no idea," pronounced the actress, who is well known for her heterogeneous character and who, in the past, has ragged pieces by the British designers, Amanda Wakeley and Antonio Berardi, as well as Versace, Pucci and Calvin Klein. MaxMara contingency additionally be deliberate a contender as Saldana was quite taken with the bullion lam and Russian princess-look velvets, expensively festooned in bullion and china that came down the catwalk.

Saldana told The Sundayshe "absolutely loved" filming "Avatar", her initial vital "action woman" role, and had accomplished as most of the stunts in the movie as possible.

"It was similar to giving a six-year-old a race-car."

A former ballet dancer, Saldana has only accomplished filming, "The Losers", in that she plays an additional movement heroine. "Theres a lot of fighting, with guns, and I get to flog a couple of boys bums."

Her purpose models, she said, were stars such as Angelina Jolie and Jessica Biel, who were "in balance with their masculinity and androgyny."

"Its lenient to be a clever woman."