Elle - The New Wave

In this month's "Hollywood" issue of Elle magazine, Paula Patton, is recognized as one of the Hollywood It Girls - Sexy, Intelligent, and Worldly. Age 30, she hails from Los Angeles and you've seen her in a small, but memorable role opposite Will Smith. This fall she will be in a film playing Denzel Washington's love interest in the upcoming film Deja Vu. She says working with him "was like going to actor grad school, like watching someone run down the rabbit hole and become someone else. You are free-falling to keep up with him."

In the photo, by the exceptionally talented photographer Gilles Bensimon, she is wearing an embroidered silk camisole top by Stella McCartney and Alex Woo's gold Sienna bangles with diamonds. Patton reveals she is not a member of the dressed-down L.A. tribe. "I like to be a bit sophisticated."