Benjamin Millepied The Face Of YSL's L'Homme Libre Fragrance

Benjamin Millepied is taking another turn in front of the camera and this time, he's the star.

The New York City Ballet dancer and fiance to Natalie Portman is the face of Yves Saint Laurent's newest fragrance for men, L'Homme Libre, WWD reported last month. And although the ads won't debut until September, YSL threw its spokesman a party on Wednesday, during which Millepied reflected on his latest project:

"It's wasn't one of my preoccupations at all. It's something I never really thought of. The positive thing about it, I think, is I'm a dancer and it's not usually the sort of thing...it's always actors or models."

That might just be a touch of modesty -- Millepied fronted Club Monaco's Fall 2010 campaign, busting some moves in dapper suits.

Think he'll take a few well-choreographed spins for YSL? Fingers crossed...

WATCH a semi-related, behind-the-scenes video of Benjamin dancing:

Comments

[shuffleoff]

08:49 PM on 06/05/2011

Insert Chris Farley and you'd have yourself a Saturday Night Live bit...hilarious! He wasn't even dancing!!!

[Rozanna]

01:33 PM on 06/07/2011

Hahaha! Exactly!

[Pete1492]

07:28 PM on 06/04/2011

Seeing this video helped me clarify what a metro-sexual is.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[Drew Griffin]

01:24 AM on 06/04/2011

Let's talk about the woman he dumped so he could date a famous actress who takes credit for dancing she didn't do and helps his career.

[Fortune27]

01:46 AM on 06/04/2011

Oh, snap!

[theroundearth]

12:31 PM on 06/04/2011

You are identifying yourself with that woman.... don't you? And Natalie is your enemy.....right?

[Drew Griffin]

01:46 AM on 06/07/2011

She's not my enemy but she is an overrated actress. Black Swan was horrible.