Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz received French President Emmanuel Macron at a dinner in the Federal Chancellery on German Unity Day. While Scholz showed up in a classic suit with a shirt and tie, the fashion-conscious Macron chose an outfit that was unusual for him: he wore a dark turtleneck under his jacket.
Economics and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who usually wears a suit, had previously appeared in a turtleneck sweater. There is a message behind this fashion shift. “You won’t see me in a tie anymore, you’ll see me in a turtleneck sweater. And I think it will be very good, it will allow us to save energy,” Le Maire told France Inter.
First LeMaire, now Macron. “After Bruno Le Maire last week, Emmanuel Macron swapped his tie for a sweater.” And further: “A change of clothes, which should raise the awareness of the French for the energy crisis,” commented the French gala on the fashionable change.
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The mayor of the small French town of Périers, Gabriel Daube, also made a fashion statement in a similar direction: the municipality bought fleece jackets for the freezing schoolchildren. “I think the manageable effort for the fleece jackets contributes to the well-being of the students and thus to their general well-being,” Mayor Daube told “France Bleu”. It costs the community 6,000 euros to buy a fleece jacket for each of the around 350 students. How every student has a computer or a dictionary, they now also receive a fleece.
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