On my radar: Carla Bruni’s cultural highlights
The musician and former French first lady on David Hockney, Big Little Lies, Leonard Cohen’s last album and the Yves Saint Laurent museum
from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2yPxLtS
Born in Turin, Italy, in 1967, Carla Bruni relocated to France with her family in the mid-1970s. After boarding school in Switzerland, the tyre company heiress started studying art and architecture in Paris, but left aged 19 to become a model. Over the next decade Bruni became one of the world’s best-paid fashion models, working with the likes of Dior, Givenchy, Chanel and Versace. In 1997 she quit modelling to focus on music, and in 2003 released her debut album Quelqu’un m’a dit (Someone Told Me), which sold more than 2m copies. In 2008 she married Nicolas Sarkozy, then president of France, and until 2012 she was first lady of France. Bruni’s fifth album, French Touch, is out now on Universal.
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