She will star as Lisbeth Salander in the studio's upcoming version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, thefirst of a planned trilogy based on Stieg Larsson's bestselling novels.
Despite all of de la Renta's gentlemanly, old-world fabulousness, he's also very much a modern man of the world, who would just as soon take a title from a tattoo as an engraved bracelet which is where Ilardo first saw the line.