A fashion designers’ favorite on the red carpet, Australian actress Naomi Watts has signed on as the new face of Ann Taylor clothing. The 41-year-old blonde beauty will appear in Ann Taylor’s fashion industry campaign for Fall 2010, which will appear in top fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Vogue.

Watts and longtime partner Liev Schreiber, with whom she has two sons, recently attended the premiere of Schreiber’s new movie Salt wearing a strapless couture fashion dress by Gucci and a shorter blunt bob haircut with long, side-swept bangs. To get her shiny look, stylist Robert Vetica made the cut longer in front and shorter in back, with razored bangs that are easy to sweep to the side. To add shine, he used Moroccanoil Glimmer Shine Spray.