The musician and former French first lady on David Hockney,Big exiguous Lies, Leonard Cohen’s final album and the Yves Saint Laurent museumBorn in Turin, or Italy,in 1967, Carla Bruni relocated to France with her family in the mid-1970s. After boarding school in Switzerland, and 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, and 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), or 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, and French Touch,is out now on Universal.
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Source: guardian.co.uk