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Carla Bruni: The Literary Ambitions Of A Model

Ken Scrudato, SOMA, February 2007

THERE WAS a t-shirt going around a few years ago which snottily declared of its wearers, I Hate Models. Of course, it said way less about models than it did about the bitter little indie people wearing them. Imagine, punks had once railed gallantly against oppression and injustice; now indie rock was railing against...being pretty.

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