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Zoë Saldana: Latinas Are ‘Fearless’ With Fashion

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Zoë Saldana tells Cosmopolitan for Latinas that she’s wearing a lot of black these days, but the actress seriously brightens the pages of the inaugural issue in looks from Black Halo, Dior, Blugirl and more.

“Latinas are fearless when it comes to fashion,” she says. “They aren’t afraid to wear color. It can be the grayest, most wintery day and you’ll see a Puerto Rican mama in a yellow Tweety Bird Dress.”

Though Saldana’s style might not be quite so loud — she favors runway-ready looks from designers like Givenchy, Alexander McQueen and Prabal Gurung — her routines did have humble beginnings.

Growing up in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — her mom moved the family there from New York after Saldana’s father died in a car accident — the actress recalls getting into trouble with her sisters. “[My mom] loved us so much that sometimes it was difficult for her to watch her kids do crazy stuff like lock yourself in the bathroom and shave your eyebrows off, just to paint them back on again,” she recalls.

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Why Finding a Stylist Was Like Finding a Boyfriend for Zoë Saldana

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For Zoë Saldana, finding the perfect stylist was like falling in love: it took a lot of searching to find ‘the one.’

“I think it took me years,” the actress told PEOPLE of finally finding longtime stylist Petra Flannery. “I would meet with [different stylists] and work with some of them, and I just never really understood until I found the synchronicity that I was looking for … As soon as Petra and I met, we had such an amazing chemistry.”

Saldana depends on Flannery to keep her on top of best-dressed lists — while making sure her fashion choices honor her personal sense of style, too.

“[Stylists] are such an important element to the composition of an artist’s image,” Saldana said recently during a luncheon hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and Jimmy Choo celebrating the magazine’s list of the 25 most powerful celebrity stylists (Flannery was among them).

“You can’t really walk out your door sometimes if you don’t have somebody that tells you [what looks good],” Saldana continued. “When you have somebody that worries about that or makes sure that they’re representing you, making you look good, you can only focus on what you really love to do, which is just to be an artist.”

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Zoë Saldana: ‘I Don’t Let Fashion Worry Me’

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Thanks to her killer body and eye for style, Zoë Saldana has had nary a red carpet miss. But the actress attributes many of her big hits to her stylist.

“She’s one of my closest friends and we … have so much fun with fashion,” Saldana told reporters Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards, where she stunned in a colorful mini. “I don’t let it worry me.”

Saldana said that when she’s not busy filming, she’s often studying style. “I love the craftsmanship of it … I love the composition, what designers go through to build a collection, to build a line, to build a label, a brand.” (Case in point: she recently came to New York Fashion Week expressly to catch the Prabal Gurung show.)

So with all of this fashion knowledge, what is Saldana’s big wardrobe must for the months ahead? “Color,” she said. “I’m a New Yorker. I’m always dressed like I’m mourning something, in black and white. But I’m introducing color this year.”

–Reporting by Melody Chiu

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