Female Leaders' Style: Christina Kirchner, President of Argentina

I tried hard to find the flaws in Kirchner's apparently impeccable style, but I failed. She's perfect - I've never seen a 58 years old lady look so great, honestly. 

Let's start at the top - haircut and makeup, both amazing. Her haircolor is just right for her skin tone and it's a color that matches probably the most color clothes in the world. The cut is fashionable, still evergreen, it'll never be an 'out'. 

Makeup-wise she must be working with really good professionals. You barely see wrinkles on her face and her makeup always highlight her eyes, by which she conveys an unbelievable amount of strength and enthusiasm.

As for her clothes - she usually wears skirts and blazers, dresses  and long coats. Most of the colors on her are pastels, she wears white a lot and if she ever wears anything with patterns on it, they are always delicate and feminine patterns. 

Thanks to her great figure, the outfit on the picture above is amazing on her. An all-white outfit would generally make anyone look fat, but Kirchner being thin and fit doesn't have to worry about this. Also, I'm not at all a fan of white shoes, I believe one should wear nude color shoes even with white clothes, because to me, white shoes are for brides, but Signora Kirchner's shoes are great and look fabulous on her. 

I love these long coats on Kirchner (on the right)! And on the picture above, the matching of colors is also great. Look at the shoes and the coat together, and then look at the tiny purse. It's all gorgeous! 

I think I found the flaw. The trousers. They are...not flattering. Not pretty. Too big. I can't explain it, I just really don't like it. She shouldn't wear trousers. I love the shoes though.

I would personally recommend wearing the outfit above to Kirchner. It's a pastel color outfit with feminine details. It would look fabulous on her!

Now, what do you think? How would you dress Kirchner up? Comment or share your Polyvore choices with us!

Next week I’ll analyze Sarah Palin, american politician.

Female Leaders' Style: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

First thing first, I don’t mean to go political in this series. I immediately remove every politics related comment. Also, what I write in these posts might not be right in terms of protocol. Maybe they dress how they dress because it has some kind of message. I don’t know and it’s not what the series is about.

The idea for this series comes from a book that I just came across yesterday. It’s Read my Pins by Madeleine Albright. Long story short, the book basically goes through Albright’s entire carreer and shows it from a very unusual angle – her brooches. I know, right? What do brooches have to do with politics? As it turned out, a lot. Each pin Albright used over the years had a message, symbolized something and was carefully chosen. So I wondered – do every female politician use such tricks?

I chose influential, successful female leaders whose sense of style and the message they might mean to symbolize I will analyze each week. For the first week, I chose the 8th Chancellor of Germany, the 57 years old Angela Merkel.

Merkel’s style is very typical. Ask anyone how Merkel dresses, they’ll know immediately. She always wears suits, round neck tops and huge scarfs. Her style is not feminine at all, the only signs showing she’s actually a lady are her pearls she’s frequently wearing.

I see a huge problem with Frau Merkel’s style right away: high cut tops. Let’s face it, her body shape falls into the spoon cathegory, she’s short and got extremely short neck. Short neck is the key here, she’s doing the worst at correcting this flaw of hers. She’s wearing suits, which is a good thing, those alone would work well with her neck, especially with special upturned collars sometimes. A suit’s V-neck could make her neck look longer and thinner – but she destroys this vision by putting on a round neck top under the suit each and every time. A round neck top breaks the neckline and makes everyone’s neck shorter. By everyone, I mean even that girl with the longest neck ever. Also, her pearls are exactly parallel with the round neckline, only they’re above, which of course doesn’t help either. Neither do scarfs, though the Chancellor probably wears them to hide her neck.

In 2006, Merkel’s style proven to be so inspirational to Wolfgang Joop, he’s dedicated a line from his fall/winter collection to Merkel. He described Merkel’s style as strong and fearless, which is probably just the message she’s trying to convey. I believe her masculine taste in fashion mean to represent power and strength indeed and I’m sure the message is coming through, but in 2009, the same designer advised her to show more skin – by which he probably meant the same thing I’d suggest, although in 2008 Merkel already made a mistake with low-cut tops: she showed too much cleavage in an evening dress in the opera in Norway. The media liked the story so much even the government spokesman commented it.

All in all I’d definitely recommend wearing V-neck tops, upturned collars and long necklaces to Frau Merkel. Also, wearing long earrings could do wonders to her neck, though I’m not sure it’d be entirelly appropriate. The three pieces below would look impeccable put together on her, though of course the t-shirt alone seems to be a weird choice for a country’s leader.

Now, what do you think? How would you dress Merkel up? Comment or share your Polyvore choices with us!

Next week I’ll analyze Cristina Kirchner, President of Argentina.