This photo of Michelle glaring at Carla Bruni is making the rounds today (Thanks, Matt Drudge), and with good reason—it is pretty hilarious. She has the best “I Mean Business” look since my 7th grade English teacher. Lesson: do your homework and dream big, or else.
Style Buzz The G-20 summit is about two things: 1. looking important while trying to “fix the world” and 2. showing off your hot stylish wife! Team USA is pretty much guaranteed to win category #2, thanks to a last-minute cancellation by Carla Bruni, but look out for the dark horse from Spain. Not a bad looking lady, that one.
Politics Buzz French president Nicolas Sarkozy has fired his foreign minister because she is glamorous, had a baby out of wedlock (maybe his!) and because Carla Bruni hates her. People were also outraged because she returned to work five days after giving birth, which is typically French and awesome. This concludes your lesson on foreign politics for the day.
Style Buzz The French first lady has sued over a tote bag featuring her naked likeness. The image in question was auctioned off earlier this year for $91,000 (and featured in every magazine in the Western world), but apparently Carla would like the sharing to stop there. It's hard to command a country's respect when they are wearing your boobs on their shoulders.
Culture Buzz French First Lady Carla Bruni’s revelation that she’s slept with 15 men (before marrying Nicolas Sarkozy) kicks off a discussion of sex and numbers. Given that this usually strikes me as a particularly American kind of obsession, it’s kinda nice to see the French and the Brits getting drawn in to the useless morality of the number question as well.
Music Buzz Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, releases her album today in Europe. With lyrics like “I…am burning for you like a pagan woman” you can’t help but think “presidential.”