Most girls wouldn't carry an entire outfit in their handbag, but then again most girls aren't Penélope Cruz. So it's just as well she had a red trouser suit in her bag, as her luggage was lost on her flight to London from Madrid.

Reddy for anything: Penélope Cruz in her emergency suit

She simply reached for her change of clothes to tread the red carpet at Somerset House last night. The Bottega Veneta suit wasn't quite up to her usual glamorous standards, but it did the trick, especially teamed with some show-stopping shoes.

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The actress, 35, came under fire from the press today for breaking the cardinal rule of wearing red on the red carpet, but at least we now know she had good reason. Cruz was in town for the premiere of Broken Embraces, and luckily the heavens didn't open on her linen number.

She said: “I looked up at the sky and said, Don't you rain on me — I'm Penélope Cruz!'” It seemed to do the trick.

Her director, Pedro Almodóvar, had an interesting theory about the lost luggage. In delightfully broken English, the Spaniard said: “I think it's a plot. I think someone take it. They a-bring it with him or her to home. I think it was a-stolen for a fetishist.” A fetish for Penélope Cruz dresses? That would be an expensive vice...

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