Famous people: following a tricky, unenviably public breakup, you are faced with a choice. Swallow the pain, the shattering grief and humiliation and check into the Mayr clinic. That, or carefully, systematically exorcise your grief with a Right Said Fred-inspired sweater via the medium of social media in plain view of your ex.
The journalist and writer Valérie Trierweiler broke up with Hollande in January last year, following revelations in Closer magazine about an affair with the actress Julie Gayet. First came the interviews, then the book, a relatively barbed 300-page memoir, Merci pour ce moment last autumn, and now the former French first lady has taken to social media to air her #currentmood by wearing a sweater emblazoned with: I’m Too Sexy For My Ex. With that little battery left on her iPhone! Off-shoulder, black bra strap showing, of course. She later took to Twitter to explain it was a joke, between friends. Of course it was.
