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France's first lady will have access to anthing she wants to wear- so here's a thread to discuss her sucesses and (hopefully numerous) failures!
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Cecilia Sarkozy
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from the telegraph:
Her look is dazzlingly simple and make-up and accessories are hardly to be seen, but the wife of France's new president knows exactly how to steal the show. Sarah Mower reports on a French renaissance
In the space of just two consummately handled public appearances, France's First Lady has simultaneously managed to restore the international reputation of French chic and modernise it - while also standing as a shining example of how not to make being Almost-Fifty matter one jot.
"Shining", of course, is an operative word. The ivory duchesse satin Prada dress she chose to process into the Elysée Palace at her husband's presidential inauguration last month, flanked by her beautiful family, shone. It had presence without pomp, and it made her the unmistakable centre of attention - especially since she had made sure to dress the Sarkozy boys in dark suits, and her two lovely blonde daughters in black dresses from Miu Miu, Prada's "sister" collection.
No accident, one is sure - though the coup de grace is that she made it look as if she wasn't trying too hard. That, of course, is the elusive essence of "understated" French insouciance - the thing that, as she proved, in contrast with her pretty girls, only gets better in amazing Parisian middle-age.
It's also something to do with the ability to show up at a formal event in a roomful of peers and make every other woman feel trussed-up, over-done and put out.
Madame Sarko's second coup was her appearance at the G8 summit last week: the knee-length strappy black dress with ever-so-slightly suggestive flesh-coloured lace inserts, worn with ballet flats.
While others of the assembled females struggled for dignity in boxy suits, regulation shifts or, in the case of Mrs Putin, tottered along in a two-piece burgundy rig that recalled Mrs Thatcher in full Boadicea mode, she looked simple and sexy, swinging her arms and walking naturally alongside her husband. (I bet the other halves were thrilled when she disappeared before the group photograph. Who'd want to stand comparison with that?)
Dissect the existing Sarkozy pictures and you eventually detect the vast differences between what she knows innately and we Anglo-Saxons can't see for looking. Here are the semi-invisible clues: no jewellery, no make-up, no hair - no handbag, for goodness sake! Of course, I don't mean none, literally. But the older you get, the more you need to polish and pare down to look genuinely, confidently good.
In Madame Sarko's case, she's got it down to wearing one solid colour, no distractions. She also knows about isolating and celebrating what is still great about your body. Cecilia Sarkozy has excellent arms, which she shows in sleeveless dresses and blouses - at an age when so many women are frightened to do so, either because of unfortunate "jiggle" or because they think they shouldn't.
Sarkozy doesn't do "shouldn't". She's a rule-breaker and a bit of a rebel. As she has pithily pointed out, as a woman with Jewish-Russian and Spanish parents, "I don't have a drop of French blood in my veins" and "I am not politically correct". Yet, however unwilling she is to fit any predetermined First Lady mould, all that fascinating stuff only qualifies her the more to contribute excitement to the image of France, French fashion, and her generation as a whole.
The French press, which traditionally focuses little attention on the spouses and private lives of politicians (and is particularly careful to skirt around Cecilia Sarkozy's disappearance from the marriage a couple of years ago), is beginning to lavish commentary on her. French Elle has devoted two issues to analysing her style and intent, approving of her apparent determination to reinvent the role recently vacated by the much older and stuffier Bernadette Chirac.
"I think French women are impressed by someone who has the strength and personality to be a modern woman, living a modern life at the head of what we call 'a recomposed' family," says Virginie Moussat, fashion editor of Le Figaro. "We don't know her that well. She is athletic and looks good. Though what she wore to the Elysée Palace was elegant and appropriate, we do expect she will go on to do something for French fashion."
She is hinting, of course, at the fact that all the inauguration clothes, including the President's, turned out to be from an Italian brand. On that occasion, Cecilia was helped by Mathilde Agostinelli, a friend who happens to be Prada's VIP salesperson in the Paris store.
Agostinelli has denied in Libération that she is a stylist, but for a high-profile political wife she's a very good person to have on-side as an adviser, official or not. Agostinelli is the sister of Victoire de Castellane, who designs jewellery for Dior, and is thus well connected within the upper echelons of Paris fashion. Not, though, that the Sarkozys exactly need introductions. When they married in 1996, Bernard Arnault, who is head of LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy, Céline, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs, was one of two witnesses.
And so now, of course, the fashion monde in Paris is all agog to know whether Madame Le President will be putting in appearances at the couture shows, coming up in the first week of July. It would fit her newly announced interest in promoting French culture - and the French think of haute couture as part of that.
If so, I can't wait to see what she'll wear. Apart from Prada, she has Lanvin in her wardrobe (she bought a longline grey sweater worn with white jeans on election night from Bon Marché) and shops at the Dior boutique. Dior, for one, says it has invited her to the grand celebration of the 50th anniversary of the house, which will be staged at Versailles. I don't really see how a French First lady - even a naughty one - could resist that. Hope not. It will certainly make a nice change from Victoria Beckham and Kylie Minogue in all those front rows.
Her look is dazzlingly simple and make-up and accessories are hardly to be seen, but the wife of France's new president knows exactly how to steal the show. Sarah Mower reports on a French renaissance
In the space of just two consummately handled public appearances, France's First Lady has simultaneously managed to restore the international reputation of French chic and modernise it - while also standing as a shining example of how not to make being Almost-Fifty matter one jot.
"Shining", of course, is an operative word. The ivory duchesse satin Prada dress she chose to process into the Elysée Palace at her husband's presidential inauguration last month, flanked by her beautiful family, shone. It had presence without pomp, and it made her the unmistakable centre of attention - especially since she had made sure to dress the Sarkozy boys in dark suits, and her two lovely blonde daughters in black dresses from Miu Miu, Prada's "sister" collection.
No accident, one is sure - though the coup de grace is that she made it look as if she wasn't trying too hard. That, of course, is the elusive essence of "understated" French insouciance - the thing that, as she proved, in contrast with her pretty girls, only gets better in amazing Parisian middle-age.
It's also something to do with the ability to show up at a formal event in a roomful of peers and make every other woman feel trussed-up, over-done and put out.
Madame Sarko's second coup was her appearance at the G8 summit last week: the knee-length strappy black dress with ever-so-slightly suggestive flesh-coloured lace inserts, worn with ballet flats.
While others of the assembled females struggled for dignity in boxy suits, regulation shifts or, in the case of Mrs Putin, tottered along in a two-piece burgundy rig that recalled Mrs Thatcher in full Boadicea mode, she looked simple and sexy, swinging her arms and walking naturally alongside her husband. (I bet the other halves were thrilled when she disappeared before the group photograph. Who'd want to stand comparison with that?)
Dissect the existing Sarkozy pictures and you eventually detect the vast differences between what she knows innately and we Anglo-Saxons can't see for looking. Here are the semi-invisible clues: no jewellery, no make-up, no hair - no handbag, for goodness sake! Of course, I don't mean none, literally. But the older you get, the more you need to polish and pare down to look genuinely, confidently good.
In Madame Sarko's case, she's got it down to wearing one solid colour, no distractions. She also knows about isolating and celebrating what is still great about your body. Cecilia Sarkozy has excellent arms, which she shows in sleeveless dresses and blouses - at an age when so many women are frightened to do so, either because of unfortunate "jiggle" or because they think they shouldn't.
Sarkozy doesn't do "shouldn't". She's a rule-breaker and a bit of a rebel. As she has pithily pointed out, as a woman with Jewish-Russian and Spanish parents, "I don't have a drop of French blood in my veins" and "I am not politically correct". Yet, however unwilling she is to fit any predetermined First Lady mould, all that fascinating stuff only qualifies her the more to contribute excitement to the image of France, French fashion, and her generation as a whole.
The French press, which traditionally focuses little attention on the spouses and private lives of politicians (and is particularly careful to skirt around Cecilia Sarkozy's disappearance from the marriage a couple of years ago), is beginning to lavish commentary on her. French Elle has devoted two issues to analysing her style and intent, approving of her apparent determination to reinvent the role recently vacated by the much older and stuffier Bernadette Chirac.
"I think French women are impressed by someone who has the strength and personality to be a modern woman, living a modern life at the head of what we call 'a recomposed' family," says Virginie Moussat, fashion editor of Le Figaro. "We don't know her that well. She is athletic and looks good. Though what she wore to the Elysée Palace was elegant and appropriate, we do expect she will go on to do something for French fashion."
She is hinting, of course, at the fact that all the inauguration clothes, including the President's, turned out to be from an Italian brand. On that occasion, Cecilia was helped by Mathilde Agostinelli, a friend who happens to be Prada's VIP salesperson in the Paris store.
Agostinelli has denied in Libération that she is a stylist, but for a high-profile political wife she's a very good person to have on-side as an adviser, official or not. Agostinelli is the sister of Victoire de Castellane, who designs jewellery for Dior, and is thus well connected within the upper echelons of Paris fashion. Not, though, that the Sarkozys exactly need introductions. When they married in 1996, Bernard Arnault, who is head of LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy, Céline, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs, was one of two witnesses.
And so now, of course, the fashion monde in Paris is all agog to know whether Madame Le President will be putting in appearances at the couture shows, coming up in the first week of July. It would fit her newly announced interest in promoting French culture - and the French think of haute couture as part of that.
If so, I can't wait to see what she'll wear. Apart from Prada, she has Lanvin in her wardrobe (she bought a longline grey sweater worn with white jeans on election night from Bon Marché) and shops at the Dior boutique. Dior, for one, says it has invited her to the grand celebration of the 50th anniversary of the house, which will be staged at Versailles. I don't really see how a French First lady - even a naughty one - could resist that. Hope not. It will certainly make a nice change from Victoria Beckham and Kylie Minogue in all those front rows.
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I feel like I'm going to miss Madame Chirac within the next 5 years.I liked what she wore at the handover of power ceremony but other than that I feel like she doesn't have the look of her first lady,she's so (to) normal.Not to mention that I'm not a fan of her husband politic but that has nothing to do with style so......
But her daughters have some nice pieces.I like their style.
But seriously how could wear such a dress to publicly welcome a president ?? It's too casual.That's what I don't like about her she tries to look like a "normal" woman and coming from a first lady that's a bit dissapointing.I feel like she wasn't ready to handle that.
But her daughters have some nice pieces.I like their style.
But seriously how could wear such a dress to publicly welcome a president ?? It's too casual.That's what I don't like about her she tries to look like a "normal" woman and coming from a first lady that's a bit dissapointing.I feel like she wasn't ready to handle that.
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Her style seems to be ok, nothing too special. I like the dress which she wore to the G8 opening dinner. But I can't believe what she wore to greet the Georgian president, it doesn't look like she has made any effort at all, it looks like something you would wear if you are going out shopping not to meet a dignitory!
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yay for this thread! I like Cecilia, because she's diffrent than all these same-dressed, boring ladies. In my opinion she IS chic and she's got that sort of modern style. I can't wait til she'll be invited at all fashion parties/shows.
It is said that she is the next Jackie Kennedy...
By the way, she wears flats to official events, just because Sarkozy is smaller than her. I don't like that. We are constantly fighting for women rights, and then she uses flats, because she can't be taller than her husband. It sucks...Does that make him powerless or what?
By the way, she wears flats to official events, just because Sarkozy is smaller than her. I don't like that. We are constantly fighting for women rights, and then she uses flats, because she can't be taller than her husband. It sucks...Does that make him powerless or what?
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totally agree with you. The others first ladies are soo formal always wearing the same kind of things, but Cecilia dares and i like it. She seems to be really kind and i'm really happy her husband is our new president ^^
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she is very beautifull
she is not pretty at all but does wear the free prada clothes quite well
yup divorce on its way so not first lady any longer...
his "affair" i believe has more charm!!
lets wait and see how this will affect cecilias style?
yup divorce on its way so not first lady any longer...
his "affair" i believe has more charm!!
lets wait and see how this will affect cecilias style?
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she was the best dressed politician's wife in europe, i'll miss her official style
i am sure she does too!!
