French twist

This week's Vogue's 10 best dressed list featured a lot of glittery holiday dresses, and one especially unfortunate plaid look worn by Vanessa Paradis, the French singer/actress better known as Johnny Depp's longtime love. Paradis, a face of Chanel, may have a history of bad dressing, but she has good taste in picking roles, especially as the troubled protagonist of "The Girl on the Bridge," also starring Daniel Auteuil. The film is an epic romance, about a down-on-his-luck knife thrower who meets a girl about to throw herself off a bridge and offers her an alternative: He asks her to be his target. His aim has been terrible lately, so she'll probably end up dead anyway, which is what she wants. The two find with eachother what they were unable to find on their own: success. And the film, shot by the legendary Patrice Leconte in beautiful black and white, tells their tale. So despite her fashion foibles, Paradis earns a free ticket to dress anyway she pleases after being part of such an amazing film.