Guest of Michel Denisot in "Icons", singer Carla Bruni lists those who have marked her life and influenced her career.

Where we find singers, obviously, but not only ...

INTERVIEW

Fashion, song, feminism: we find these themes among the icons of Carla Bruni.

Guest of Michel Denisot in

Icons

on Europe 1, Saturday, the singer listed the emblematic personalities who have marked his life and his career.

The one which leaves its new album on October 9 entitled

Carla Bruni

, naturally summons artists here, but not only.

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Dylan, Brassens and Barbara, his musical icons

Let's start logically with the music.

If she had to choose three icons in this universe, Carla Bruni would take without hesitation Bob Dylan, Georges Brassens and Barbara, three "masters" who had an influence on her.

"I didn't meet Barbara - I went to her funeral but it's not a happy meeting moment - I didn't meet Brassens, and I ran into Dylan a few times. But it doesn't matter, because that in truth do you want to meet your icons? I don't think that is necessary. You have to keep this distance with the icon. I think that meeting, friendship, intimacy, even with people who are icons in the eyes of others, doesn't look like an icon to you. The icon, I think it's a narcissistic projection of something that is more related to deep admiration than meet."

Juliette Gréco, "icon of freedom"

Juliette Gréco, who died Wednesday night at the age of 93, made a big impact on Carla Bruni beyond her music.

“She was an icon of freedom, incredibly graceful”, comments the singer on Europe 1. “I remember a story where Sagan spoke of their young years together with Juliette Gréco. I would have wanted to do so much. part of this group of people, just spending an hour with them one afternoon… "

Audrey Hepburn "an eternal maiden"

In the cinematographic department, Carla Bruni immediately places Audrey Hepbrun above all the others.

"She is an icon in the sense that she put forward a thinness, a simplicity and a sensuality that is not at all the explosive sensuality of the big Hollywood stars, which was opulent, irresistible and who were all a little fatal women. I'm talking about Marylin [Monroe, editor's note], Ava Gardner or Rita Hayworth ", explains the singer, who has made a few appearances on the big screen.

"This little young woman arrived, very thin, always dressed in black and who wore flat shoes, a bit like an eternal young girl. I have great pleasure in imitating her. When I met Hubert de Givenchy, who had created so many clothes for her, I felt in this great gentleman, this wonderful couturier, someone who treated us in an absolutely extraordinary way when we worked with him. "

"I like this kind of beauty that is a little different. I also really like all these women who are a bit like child women, who are all icons. Jane Birkin, Françoise Hardy. All these women who are always in a simplicity, in a kind of naturalness that has made them icons of style and charm. "

Colette, an "incredible" feminist icon

"Colette was an incredible icon" of feminism, judges the singer.

The courage and "daring" of this multi-talented literary woman are reflected in "her complete works, her boyish clothes, her sometimes half-naked shows, her loves with women as with men at a time when we went to jail when you were free like that "..." No woman ever lived like that, with that strength, that power, that freedom too, and that loneliness, sometimes. She's also an icon, an incredible icon. "

Nelson Mandela, "example of extraordinary humanity"

Among the "icons of high human level", Carla Bruni places at the top Nelson Mandela, the former leader of South Africa who has never ceased to fight against apartheid and for peace, despite 28 years of imprisonment.

"He only said words in his life that made people feel good. He went through terrible things and he came out better," she commented, referring to the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize as of an "example of humanity and extraordinary goodness".