Category Archive: Eurocrats

Eurocrat, with a twist

Eurocrat, with a twist

Yes, that’s a knit tie! I don’t think you’d see one of those on the 10th floor of the Berlaymont.

 

Another day, another Eurocrat

Another day, another Eurocrat

Michel Barnier is the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, and he’s also commissioned a little break from the usual with a red …

 

Everything in this picture is rad

Everything in this picture is rad

When Wim Wenders visits the European Parliament, he puts on blue glasses, a matching sweater, a shirt with hidden color on the inside collar, and a jacket that looks like the carpet at the old Indianapolis airport.

 

Subtle pattern

Subtle pattern

Commission President Barroso’s tie looked like a standard blue and white dot tie in pictures from an event in March, until I found some closeups. …

 

Olli is back

Olli is back

…and he looks to be perturbed by a journalist’s question about where he got those rad outer space glasses. Well, duh, Rehn works on the Starship Berlaymont.

 

Layering

Layering

Jean-Claude Trichet knows how to do two things: ensure medium-term Eurozone price stability and dress excellently.

 

Guide to dressing Eurocrat

Guide to dressing Eurocrat

I ran across this picture of Olli Rehn and Diego López Garrido a couple days ago and it demonstrates my point perfectly.