Article: The 1st ladies' club Carla is the newest star of this elite club, but Kate Weinberg wasn't bedazzled when she met her on Thursday

Eva Peron and Carla Bruni, one feels, would have enjoyed shopping together. In the musical Evita, which dramatises the short life of the glamorous First Lady of Argentina, Eva sings"They need to adore me,

So Christian Dior me,

From my head to my toes."

Words that could just as easily have belonged to Carla Bruni, singing to John Galliano as she prepared the five costume changes for her

36-hour trip to London.

Carla and Eva have more than a taste for Dior in common. As with Carla, Eva worked as a model (and actress)

before she met the soon-to-be President of Argentina, Juan Peron. Peron's description of meeting her, and being captured by those "fevered eyes", has been a charge variously ...

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