CARLA AND HER PERFECT LITTLE DRESS ; Looks familiar? Liz Hoggard considers Madame Sarkozy's obsession with cap sleeves, ruched necks ... and Dior

Evening Standard - London › June 09, 2009

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HAS anyone else noticed that Carla Sarkozy, credited with saving the French fashion industry, is always wearing The Same Dress? On Saturday, to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, it was cream. Yesterday, at the ballot box with husband Nicolas, it was blue with white spots.

From pale pink to royal purple, it's always the same body- hugging shift. Cap sleeves. Tick. Pin-tuck neckline. Tick. Narrow belt. Tick. You could write pages about the semiotics of Carla.

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CARLA AND HER PERFECT LITTLE DRESS ; Looks familiar? Liz Hoggard considers Madame Sarkozy's obsession with cap sleeves, ruched necks ... and Dior

Severe but inherently sexy, the Dior shift says: "I am not as other women." One-col...

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