Design
Mayor Chooses Supermodel French First Lady to Represent Working Class in Statue
A Paris suburb is planning to use Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's face in a statue honoring female immigrant workers.
To celebrate his city’s history of working class immigrants, Mayor Jacques Martin of the Paris suburb Nogent-sur-Marne will build a statue of immigrant factory employees. The model for said symbol of the working class? Multi-millionaire pop star, former supermodel and French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Martin has commissioned the statue to be built in a town square by springtime. It will depict Bruni-Sarkozy in working clothes as a tribute to the female Italian migrants who made clothes and decorative objects from feathers in a factory downtown. The statue is expected to cost more than 80,000 euros.