Salma Hayek Wears Alexander McQueen on InStyle

by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts)
Posted May 18th 2010 at 3:35PM

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Salma Hayek Pinault graces InStyle's June cover in Alexander McQueen Spring 2010. Photographed for InStyle by David Slijper

Salma Hayek Pinault is certainly living the dream life.

Not only does the 43-year-old mother of 2-year-old Valentina have a body most twentysomethings crave, but she's also married to one of the most powerful men in fashion, Francois-Henri Pinault, the CEO of PPR.

Fortunately, for those of us wanting to live vicariously, Hayek Pinault (yes, that's her new moniker) is opening up about her real-life fashion fairy tale in InStyle's June issue, which hits newsstands May 21.

On the cover of the glossy, Hayek Pinault dons one of the iconic snakeskin print dresses from the late Alexander McQueen's Spring 2010 collection (PPR owns 50 percent of McQueen through its Gucci Group subsidiary).

Oddly enough, she wore an identical dress at Vanity Fair's famed Oscar Party in March. We guess even fashion royalty (through marriage) can't say no to doubling up on a great garment.

The Mexican-born actress, who also shines inside the magazine in a curve-hugging purple evening gown, explains why she recently decided to tag her husband's last name onto her own.

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Salma stuns in a form-fitting magenta gown. Photographed for InStyle by David Slijper

"It was Valentina's request," Hayek Pinault explains. "I didn't think about it until she brought it up. We were shooting a film, and she saw my chair with my name on it. She said, 'What does it say there?' And I said, 'Salma Hayek.' And she said, 'What about Pinault? Why not Pinault?' Because here people say 'Madame Pinault.'

"I said to myself, 'This is who I am now. I'm starting a whole new life. I've never been happier. Why shouldn't I share it with the people who have been supporting me my whole career, who have been with me since the beginning?' I'm a private person, but I should let them in on the fact that I'm a different person, and a better person. It's a new life."

And, with a closet full of YSL, Gucci, Balenciaga, and McQueen, a much more fashionable one at that.

To read more about the actress, pick up the new issue of InStyle this Friday.

In other magazine news, Megan Fox is baring her unibrow in Allure.

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Filed under: Fashion, Celebrity, News, Designers & Brands, Celebrity Style
Tags: Alexander McQueen, celebrity babies, celebrity children, celebrity photo shoots, francois henri pinault, InStyle, magazine covers, PPR, Salma Hayek, salma hayek pinault, Valentina Pinault

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Angiebaby, 5-18-2010, 6:02PM

If her husband owns a fashion house and he gives her first pick of the new line of dresses because he loves her and spoils her, good for her! She waited long enough. I'm glad she is so happy. And there is nothing wrong with wanting the world to know she is Mrs. Pinault. I've heard real love makes you do things you never thought you would.

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jeff, 5-18-2010, 6:24PM

Loved Haystacks Calhoun!.............huh?....what? ..........never mind, he was still a great wresltler!

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Fred, 5-18-2010, 6:31PM

sounds like beautifulblondebabe is highly stuck on herself.but what do you expect from a blonde that has only 2 brain cells left?

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pnut166, 5-18-2010, 6:42PM

"YOU CAN LOOK AT A HAPPY, SUNNY, PRETTY & FRIENDLY BLONDE". Where? You are certainly none of the above.

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titiLun, 5-18-2010, 6:55PM

and what happened after they got to know you? i think you forgot to brag about that part. OR, it's more because there's nothing to brag about.

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phyllis, 5-19-2010, 12:32PM

selma isn't nothing but a mexican gold digger she never was all that maybe she should stay in mexico she dosen't even speak english right mexican miget thats why mexican men wish for a blond woman they don't know who is who there they all look the same dark hair and extra stomachs

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jmamma1, 5-18-2010, 7:22PM

You are so ugly on the inside you hateful skank

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Massevatak, 5-18-2010, 7:40PM

BeautifulBlondeBabe you must be joking,usually when a person has to put someone else down to feel better about themselves they obviously have a problem with self esteem.You're bigoted words and insults make you UGLY.If you're as pretty as you seem to think you are there would be no need to brag and bash someone else.You may think you're all that,but you're actually quite pathetic.

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Toria, 5-18-2010, 9:45PM

He didn't marry her until AFTER she had his child. As hard as she worked to catch him why not take his name? When they divorce in a few years, she'll be getting everything else too! LOL

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gaita, 5-18-2010, 9:53PM

Oh please. Come back to reality. Do not think you're as beautiful as you say. A person who is so ugly inside and scavenger like you, definitive can not be a beautiful woman. On the contrary, I think you're a frustrated soul who has no life of its own, therefore, you spend your life inventing defer in the lives of others. Get a life! Freaking scavenger.

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