(PICS) HALLE BERRY TAKES OVER PARISIAN LINGERIE LINE AND SAYS AMERICAN WOMEN NEED TO STEP IT UP

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What’s in a bra? Femininity, sexiness and self-empowerment, says Halle Berry, who is launching a lingerie line she says will do it all.

The Oscar-winning actress is reviving Scandale, a lingerie label born in France in 1932.

Halle Berry had some harsh words for American women as she debuts her new Scandale lingerie line.  Halle Berry thinks American women need to take a cue from the French when it comes to their drawers.

“We’ve taken this brand and revamped it,” Berry said in an interview Thursday.

“But we’ve kept all the qualities of the Parisian sort of style intact.”

The collection of 10 bras and panties will be sold by Target, and while “rich with history and heritage,” will boast “a very good price,” said Berry, who, beneath her lacy dress displayed a black Illusion demi bra (less than $20).

Berry is an owner of the Scandale Paris line and said she plays a hands-on role in design, declaring, “I think I have a pulse on what American women want.”

She agreed that, for guys, the choice of undergarments is largely a question of boxers or briefs. “But most women know that what you put under your clothes is the first step in making yourself feel good about yourself.”

“I have some friends — who will remain nameless — that wear the same janky bras for, like, five years straight. As Americans, we can go there, but what I learned about the Frenchwomen is that they’re always updating their lingerie.  They’re not going to get caught in the emergency room not prepared. If they have to cut their clothes off, they’re going to be fabulous under there.”

Besides when you look like this in lingerie.....

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