Paris Finery For Baby Suri

Tom Cruise skipped a "Mission: Impossible III" news conference Wednesday in Paris to hit the boutiques in search of outfits for his newborn baby daughter, organizers said.

Cruise showed up later in the day at the Paris red carpet event for the movie. His fiancee, Katie Holmes, and week-old Suri stayed home while Cruise went to Europe to promote his role as superagent Ethan Hunt.

At the news conference, "Mission: Impossible III" director J.J. Abrams playfully asked actress Michelle Monaghan what it was like to kiss Cruise with Holmes on the set.

"Was it weird?" he asked.

No way, she said.

"Just in general to kiss Tom Cruise is, you know ... an experience of a lifetime," she joked. "I highly recommend it ... I said to Katie, 'I understand why you keep him around.'"

The new baby girl, Suri, is the first child for Cruise and Holmes. Cruise also has another daughter, and a son, from his marriage to ex-wife Nicole Kidman.