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Fashion catfight alert! There's a smackdown brewing between Brigitte Bardot and France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy over a designer handbag. Screen icon Bardot gifted Bruni a special-edition Lancel handbag from the company's new BB line—as named after Bardot herself. Bruni, says Bardot, never even said thank you. (Shockwaves, we know.)
"I have received no thank you note whatsoever from Carla Bruni, who is as beautiful as she is badly brought-up," Bardot said of the first lady, who the legend is also angry with for not pressuring husband President Nicolas Sarkozy to outlaw bullfighting in southern France.
· Carla? She is badly brought up says Bardot after snub from the first lady... over a handbag [Daily Mail]