I must admit I was taken aback when I first glanced at pictures of the French President and his new wife visiting London this week.
I kept thinking, ‘I remember when Carla Bruni was a model!’ Not some later version of Gracy Kelly or as some newspapers in England are now (gasp!) claiming the new Princess Diana.
She first appeared right at the end of the big early 90’s supermodel phase. After Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista (my favorite still to this day), Naomi Campbell (whom I shared a plane with one time), Cindy Crawford (the model at the time), Niki Taylor, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss – then a new addition to several designers’ shows.
No, I remember Carla Bruni was part of the second coming of models – the Sharlom Harlows, Amber Valettas, Carolyn Murphys and Karen Mullers.
Hey I know my fashion and my pop culture.
She did some runway shows, and some magazines and mainly stayed with designers like Lacroix and Galliano, so she never really broke out ‘big time’ in America unlike her predecessors who eventually ventured out more into business.
She was shy and quiet on the public side during interviews, yet her love life was red hot with highly notable men including Donald Trump and Mick Jagger.
And then she decided to leave her cash cow for music dwindling into oblivion. I remember thinking then it was a big mistake. But hey, if Naomi Campbell can sing with Vanilla Ice, why not?
And then last month she suddenly reappeared when she married Nicolas Sarkozy.
I guess in some ways it makes sense to have an ex-model be France’s top woman. Who better to have as a fashion ambassador?
It also shows anything can happen – Al Gore ring a bell?
Photos courtesy of Reuters
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