Lindsay Lohan, the Hollywood bad girl whose life and career became a tabloid soap opera, faces her toughest audience in Paris on Sunday. This time, however, she is not acting — and she will be stone cold sober. Under the circumstances, she could be forgiven a celebratory glass of champagne. Shortly after lunchtime, Miss Lohan, 23, the star of Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, and Herbie:Fully Loaded, will take her bow on a Paris prêt-à-porter catwalk, as the new artistic adviser at the famous French fashion house of Emanuel Ungaro.  The hot-pink and orange colours, sequins, and monochrome tailoring in leather and silk are the creations of Miss Lohan and the little-known Spanish designer Estrella Archs. “This is the real me,” Miss Lohan said excitedly in an interview for The Sunday Telegraph. “Working with Estrella and the team at Ungaro is a dream come true. “Fashion is one of my favourite things in the world and this is the best week of my life. I’m just so excited; it has hardly hit me yet. I’ve got jet-lag, but I was here until midnight, trying things on, looking at accessories.”  The new job should win her very different headlines to the ones that have fascinated tabloid readers. As well as candy-floss movies, her press cuttings are dominated by lurid tales of drug abuse, drink-driving, boys, police trouble and a much-publicised lesbian relationship.  Miss Lohan described her role at Ungaro as “advising”. She said: “I’m young. I know what it’s like. Lots of girls want to dress like me. I always like to ask my friends when I buy stuff, or my sister Aliana who’s with me in Paris. I’m doing the same thing here, giving my perspective.“ Sometimes, with my own clothes, I just take a pair of scissors to take the hem up; I might just do that. My sister and I are going to be sewing the headbands I want the models to wear. “It’s incroyable. Estrella and I are doing amazing things.”  By the end of today, Miss Lohan will have discovered whether the harshest critics she may ever face agree with her or not.
The American actress reveals all as artistic adviser at the Ungaro    spring/summer 2010 collection at Paris Fashion Week.