PARIS – “As a result of I’ve a shiny shirt, I’m going to sing yet one more love music,” Carla Bruni declared as she doffed her Saint Laurent tuxedo jacket and launched right into a breathy rendition of Abba’s “The Winner Takes it All.”
The singer held the viewers rapt on the Italian embassy in Paris on Wednesday night time as hosted a lavish ceremonial dinner to have a good time its new boutique at 267 Rue Saint-Honoré.
Amongst these taking in her efficiency have been Bruni’s husband, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy; inside designer India Mahdavi; jeweler Elie High; ballet star Germain Louvet; shoe designer Bruno Frisoni; deejay Michel Gaubert, and Google government Zita d’Hauteville.
Friends steered away from a rotating, mechanical show set within the first lobby — its snapping scissors, banging hammers and folding contraptions detailing the primary steps to create a Valextra purse — and roamed the embassy’s lavish salons.
Louvet mentioned rehearsals for upcoming performances of “The Nutcracker” on the Opéra Bastille are serving to him get into the vacation temper. “It brings the entire fairytale and the magic of Christmas on stage,” he enthused, noting it’s been virtually a decade since Tchaikovsky’s ballet has been offered by the Paris Opera Ballet.
Requested about his favourite Italian issues, Louvet tugged on the outsized lapels of his Gucci blazer and lifted his pant legs to indicate off the cheeky message stamped on each heels his Gucci boots: Sucker.
Spaghetti alla bottarga is what Mahdavi craves when she’s lacking Italy. The design maven is at present engaged on a number of non-public residences, and a recent artwork museum in Trondheim, Norway.
When she’s feeling homesick, Turin-born Bruni mentioned she turns to music by Lucio Battisti and Fabrizio De André, the Italian singers that marked her childhood in Italy.
As she tucked away her smartphone, a small picture could possibly be seen on the ivory clasp of her Iside purse.
“That’s an image of me, holding my guitar,” she mentioned, marveling that one of many Kate Barry images taken for her 2002 debut “Quelqu’un m’a dit” was deftly interpreted by way of embroidery.
Seems the brand new Valextra boutique presents personalized Iside luggage with embroideries by artist Sandrine Torredemer, who works below the nom de plume La Filature.
