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Goodbye power suits, hello power shoes!
England's second-ever female Prime Minister (YES!), Theresa May has an enormous job ahead of her navigating the ramifications of Brexit, and she's come armed to do the job.
The newly sworn-in leader, as it turns out, has some serious shoe game. In her taste for badass power accessories—particularly leopard ones!—May takes after the U.K.'s Iron Lady herself. (For Margaret Thatcher, it was the Asprey bag that never left her side—can you imagine what kinds of unclassified documents resided in that chi top handle tote?)
If the new PM's array of sparkly skimmers, animal-print heels and thigh-high boots could talk, they'd say: "I mean business." If her shoe game is any indication, watch out world, May is going to make history in office.
While some have called May's first-day-in-office leopard kitten heels a "political power move", there have been critiques that focusing on May's shoe collection is a sexist gambit by media—after all, she is the country's second-ever female Prime Minister, shouldn't we be focused on that? The answer is, of course, yes.
But fashion has historically has played a role in political and international affairs. I personally interviewed former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright upon the release of her book Read My Pins in 2009, and she told me that she amassed her impressive brooch collection not only because she had a penchant for pins, but she used them to communicate unsaid messages to the likes of Yassir Arafat and Saddam Hussein (yes, really).
“I always loved jewelry,” Albright told me at the time. “I thought, well, this is fun. I was in New York where there are lots of places to buy wonderful things…and I bought jewelry that I thought described what we were doing. On good days it was flowers…on bad days it was spiders and bugs.”
While we're not saying that May's shoes are code for international incident...but hey, they might be. And we're totally okay with that. After all, a little style never hurt anyone.
Check out some of our favorite styles from Madame Prime Minister's quite formidable shoe collection:
On July 13, her first day in office
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Mixed media leopard kitten heels on July 11
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Kiss print skimmers on July 7
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In saucy thigh-high moc-croc boots in March 2015
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Kitten heels again, with a leopard cap-toe in November 2014
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The boots (again) in November 2013
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Like we said, formidable.
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Source: http://www.glamour.com/story/uk-prime-minister-theresa-mays-shoe-game-is-ridiculously-strong
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