![]() I hope Melania has the occasion of… helping other people.France isn’t a betting country, but when Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni decided to get married in 2008, after a two-month courtship, many of France’s chattering classes were already starting to guess the likely divorce date. I love what Michelle Obama did for nutrition in America. So… I think Melania will be judged more through that. I don’t think the style of the first lady depends very much on the way she dresses-it’s more the vibe and what she does for people.” She continues, “You have the power to help other people, and those are my best memories. When you’re in that position you get very paranoid and filled with fear. I have a hard time judging someone I’ve never met because people can be so different from their image. She was so charming in life, and so warm,” says Bruni. ![]() When it comes to the current first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, well, Bruni prefers discussing Michelle Obama. Clad in Dior, the statuesque Bruni was undoubtedly the most glamorous first lady since Jackie O. television series Skins.Īnd, if globetrotting fashion model or musical star weren’t enough, Bruni achieved a third act following her 2008 marriage to then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy: first lady of France. Her 2002 debut album, Quelqu’ un m’ a dit, sold over 2 million copies, garnered rave views, and has had its songs featured in everything from the film (500) Days of Summer to the U.K. It surprised many when, in the early aughts, Bruni transitioned seamlessly from supermodel to bestselling recording artist. Madonna literally hates Trump! She must have had a heart attack!” “And we could hear in the recording that so many women were after him, like me, Kim Basinger, and Madonna. And he talked as if he was his own press agent!” says Bruni, giggling. “I watched this Netflix documentary, and called that woman that was a journalist and she recorded that. I met Donald Trump very rarely, maybe twice,” she maintains.īruni didn’t really give the whole curious episode much thought until recently when she watched the Netflix documentary Trump: An American Dream, and saw scenes of Trump impersonating his own press agent and phoning the tabloids to claim he was dating everyone from Kim Basinger and Madonna to Bruni. Trump at the time if I could get a room there. My friend went to the Plaza with her boyfriend for a week in New York, and I did ask Mr. When I recite the book passage to Bruni, she laughs hysterically. Impossible things are very inspiring-even more than possible things,” she coos. The chanteuse says she’s most inspired by “being sensitive,” and harbors a borderline obsession with amour fou-as on the track “Your Lady,” her first tune in English. We did it all at the same time,” recalls Bruni. “Everyone is playing at the same time, so there’s a movement that you don’t have where you do it like a cheesecake, where it’s layer-by-layer-the piano, the guitar, the vocals. The effect is intimate and sweeping at once. Once the quarantine was lifted, Bruni and her band convened at a recording studio in Paris, where they recorded the album live in just six days-wearing masks in-between sessions, with musicians separated by a series of rotating walls. “It takes a lot of potatoes to make a very pure, small glass of vodka,” she says. Bruni wrote nine of the 15 songs on the album during COVID confinement, and 30 in total.
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