Lethal Dose

I’ve sort of been following the Bruni-Sarkozy story - why not? I always liked Carla as a model, because she was outspoken, and being rich, she did it for fun. Then she quit to make records. And they weren’t embarrassing either. So when she married Sarkozy I figured it had to be for love … he’s 5 inches shorter, she doesn’t need the money or fame, and knew she’d be the target of ridicule. Talk about rising to the occasion! Thank the spirit of Grace Kelly that we finally have a new, gorgeous fashion icon. It gives me hope.

From the Telegraph:

In dressing for her arrival at Heathrow, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, former folk singer and now First Lady of France, demonstrated a political savvy which belied her brief tenure on the country’s fashion throne. Her dress code for the start of the state visit could not have been a better chosen example of entente cordiale at its most diplomatic and stylish.

From “tête to toes”, her ensemble bore the marque of Christian Dior, one of the most revered names in French fashion.

But it was designed by an Englishman, John Galliano, who recently marked his tenth anniversary as the couturier-in-residence at the famous maison on Paris’s Avenue Montaigne.

The outfit comprised a high-waisted coat in Dior grey – the colour most associated with the fashion house, originally founded in 1946 by M. Christian Dior.

It was accessorised with a matching beret, slightly tilted to one side to show Mme Sarkozy’s signature demi-fringe.

The coat was cinched with a wide, black leather belt, which emphasized her slim figure, once such a feature on the catwalks of the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Christian Lacroix and Versace, in the 1990s when she was one of the world’s highest-paid models.

Mme Sarkozy deliberately chose flat, black leather ballet pumps to detract from the height differential between her statuesque 5ft 9in and her husband’s 5ft 5in, and carried - in black, leather-gloved hands - the latest entrant from the Dior ‘accessory stable’, a shiny black leather handbag, called The Babe.