In fashion, music and the delicate diplomatic role Carla Bruni has always remained Carla Bruni. Gentle, magnetic, beautiful.

In the 90s, she was one of the most famous, beautiful and desired top models in the world. Today Carla Bruni retains that grace intact, with the added bonus of having enriched her experience with multiple lives that have been tailored to her like a tailor-made dress. Her songs reflect her most intimate feelings, while the diplomacy and sobriety with which she has interpreted her public role alongside her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France from 2007 to 2012, have made her even more divine. Two children , Aur&eacute;lien, born from her relationship with philosophy professor Rapha&euml;l Enthoven in 2001, and Giulia, born in 2011 with her husband Sarkozy, complete her as a mother. When talking about <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/culture/carla-bruni-dior-john-galliano-reopening-notre-dame-paris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carla Bruni</a>, it is impossible not to also think of her sister , Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi , an actress and director of great sensitivity and nuance, who recently moved on from the uncomfortable stools of Francesca Fagnani in Belve, eight months after her sister Carla Bruni .
On December 23 , Carla Bruni turned 57. We celebrate her by retracing her three most significant lives. Waiting to find out which one will be the next.

Carla Bruni model, from her debut to her most iconic looks

Claude Montana spring summer 1991

Carla Bruni Romeo GIgli autumn winter 1987 Milan

Carla Bruni Guy Paulin Ready to Wear autumn winter 1989-90

In the 1990s, she became one of the highest-paid models in the world, earning $7.5 million a year. An incredible phenomenon that pervaded all other areas of society. Before social media, but after movie stardom, being a top model meant embodying the most persuasive and captivating ambition around. A celebration of beauty and total perfection and transformative freedom. And designers understood this. Carla Bruni walked the runway for all the greatest and those who would later become great. She was there in the legendary Perry Ellis by Marc Jacobs fashion show dedicated to grunge in 1993. Today, can we dare say that <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/saint-laurent-eyewear-campaign-autumn-winter-24-starring-bella-hadid-and-rose" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bella Hadid</a> is the contemporary version of Carla's beauty?

Prada Spring-Summer 1992 Fashion Show

Carla Bruni Krizia Spring Summer 1995 Milan

Carla Bruni Versace red

Aristochic, Carla Bruni&#39;s transformation on the catwalks

Carla Bruni Christian Dior Fall 1997 Ready to Wear

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1995-1996

Lacroix Haute Couture Spring/Summer-1996

Transformism is one of the qualities that a model must demonstrate to possess without affecting her personality. This was the case for Carla Bruni in the visions of designers and couturiers for whom she walked the runway, making her recognizable above all else.

Carla Bruni Christian Lacroix, spring summer 1996

Carla Bruni mischievous and bold

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Dolce & Gabbana Fall Winter 1992-93

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September 22, 2017 is one of those dates that the fashion community never forgets. Donatella Versace performs a miracle in bringing the magical quintet, the 5 top models of the history of 90s fashion, back into the spotlight to celebrate and remember the twentieth anniversary of the premature death of her brother Gianni. Born and deified by him. Dressed in gold mesh, the show ended with a hypnotizing wow moment. Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/claudia-schiffer-new-face-of-winter-2024-25-ermanno-scervino-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudia Schiffer</a> and Carla Bruni. On Apple TV+, re-watching The Super Models is a must.

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Carla Bruni Tod's spring summer 2023

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Carla Bruni singer, voice and guitar

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Having put the fashion chapter on hold, Carla Bruni has reinvented herself by drawing on her great passion for music , with which she has written in beautiful handwriting the next paragraph of her life. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: 0px;">And she does it very well, achieving considerable success and cascading recognition. Stage presence, heartfelt songwriting, a raspy and sensual voice: she becomes the chic reincarnation of <yt-formatted-string force-default-style="" class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Joan Baez, Jony Mitchell, Judee Sill, Vashti Bunyan, Sandy Denny and, if we want to consider that way of singing softly, the female version of Nick Drake, transposed into the 2000s. A small but carefully crafted project by someone who knows, and knows perfectly, the mechanisms of 360-degree communication. The timing is also perfect. The recovery of that folk rock of the late sixties and early seventies flourishes at the beginning of the new millennium in America, arrives in England to also infect Carla Bruni's France. In 2002 she then publishes her first album Quelqu'un m'a dit &nbsp;in fact overcoming the well-known clich&eacute;s about models deluded into thinking they can try their hand at other forms of artistic expression without really deserving it.&nbsp;</yt-formatted-string>
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In Sanremo in 2003 together with Baudo as a guest in the 53rd edition

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Carla Bruni&#39;s singing career continues and at the beginning of 2007 her second album sung in English No Promises arrives. The following year she returns to French with her third work Comme si de rien n&#39;était with two exceptions, the covers You Belong to Me from 1952, and Il vecchio e il bambino by Francesco Guccini: the proceeds from the album&#39;s sales were donated to charity. Her discography then continues with Little French Songs released in 2013, French Touch in 2017 and Carla Bruni in 2020. For collectors.

Carla Bruni at Sanremo 2023 for Colapesce Di Martino

Carla Bruni Premiere Dame of France

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They met at a dinner in the winter of 2007 and married in February of the following year.&nbsp;Bruni-Sarkozy quickly became the First Lady of France alongside the twenty-third President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy , during the five-year period from May 16, 2007 to May 15, 2012. 17 years later and with a daughter named Giulia, they are still married, united in good times and bad.

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Becoming First Lady of France was not a problem for Carla Bruni: her rich personal experience, her studies and the social and diplomatic side accumulated in the dazzling life of an international model, allowed her to easily step into the shoes of First Lady with great naturalness. But it is not just about privileges and power: in 2009 she created the &nbsp; Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation &nbsp; to promote access to culture and knowledge.

The Many Lives of Carla Bruni: Model, Musician and First Lady

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