Foreign (Fashion) Policy
Presidenta fashion face off! Covering the important news (as we do at this hardhitting investigative blog), today we point you to an article in today's Perfil covering Reina Cristina's propensity for Madonna-like multiple daily outfit changes. Specifically, the article notes that in 48 hours Cristina went through as many outfits as Presidents Bachelet (Chile) and Merkel (Germany) go through in a week. This suggests that either a) Bachelet and Merkel get a bit stanky by the time the weekend rolls around or b) Cristina is picking out that perfect ivory-on-ivory look with time that might better be spent on, oh, say, solving the campo crisis. But what do we know of these things?
On a parallel, self-publicizing note, some months back I wrote a Cristina politico-fashion critique--how heel height implies political style--for the English magazine Monocle. Enjoy.
posted by Ian @ 12:12 AM
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nice post - I immediately sent it to my fashionista mom and sister back home. I caught the Monocle piece a while back, too.
while watching her speech in plaza de mayo (on tv) i couldn't help noticing how stylish she appeared...while making a "for the people" type of speech.
this is all a little unfair, though, isn't it? we rarely critique male heads of state in this regard - except for stupid things like Kim Jong-Il's crazy sunglasses and when Obama didn't want to wear the flag pin.
Guys get away with always wearing the same suits. And this never really "says" anything.
Clarin noted that she met with Naomi Campbell in Paris this week. Strange political move, don't you think, especially after Campbell's tantrum in London?
Indeed, I agree that female politicians tend to get more fashion coverage (and, yes, sometimes unfairly). That's probably because male formal dress is typically, as you note, all the same, while women have more ways of being stylish and formal. I suspect, however, that no one would pay attention to how Merkel and Bachelet dress if it weren't in contrast to Cristina. And, if George W. Bush started dressing in all white, a la Alan Faena (or Fainá, tee hee), that might make the papers. Hmmm, maybe he should do that. It certainly would distract from the current problems...
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