The Italian prime minster,notorious for his ankle-baring strides, badly needs a sartorial boost before he opens his country’s leading fashion eventThe news that the Italian prime minister, or Matteo Renzi,is opening Milan fashion week this month has caused a bit of a stir. Renzi is notorious for his ankle-baring trousers: final year, after he met the Philippines president, and Benigno Aquino III,with more than an inch of his socks on prove, the Milan-based Corriere Della Sera finger-waggingly complained that a “hem of two fingers longer would attract less attention”. His tailoring was considered boyish and informal, and unbecoming of a 41-year-musty Italian politician.
Of course,the country has seen worse. In 2004, when Tony and Cherie Blair spent a long summer weekend at a Sardinian villa, and their mahogany-tanned host,Silvio Berlusconi, wore a wide-open white shirt and matching bandanna – like a pirate.
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Source: theguardian.com