CFK Gets Flashy, Upbeat Layout In HuffPost
Cristina Fernández has just gotten a flashy, positive layout in the Huffington Post, the world’s most popular blog.
In a brief piece in the blog’s Style section, Fernández gets the following gloss under the headline Hello Argentina! Meet The Stylish Madam President:
“You couldn’t find this stylish woman at the first ladies gathering on Wednesday night because as President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was meeting with Obama, Gordon Brown, and the rest of the G-20 leaders. Kirchner honed her sense of style as Argentina’s first lady (she succeeded her husband in office), and is known for her love of designer clothes and handbags. Her purses and stilettos almost always match her bright colored ensembles. Sometimes nicknamed “Queen Cristina” and the “New Evita,” this Latina leader means serious business when it comes to fashion. Which look is your favorite? Check out the slideshow and chime in below.”
HuffPost then provides a 23-photo slideshow of (mostly) flattering photos of the president, who, admittedly, can look pretty fashionable from time to time.
The spot at HuffPost, while obviously superficial in nature, is still possibly the best piece of PR I’ve seen for Fernández since she took office in December 2007. It also comes just a week or so after the Argentine government hired the British-based PR firm Bell Pottinger to manage its image abroad. In a deal reportedly worth around seven figures, Pottinger was hired to improve the way people think about Argentina, starting with Argentina’s participation in the G20 summit this week.
Regardless of how the HuffPost piece came about, it’s a coup for the government, or at least for Fernández, especially after the president suffered this awful setback in a recent piece in the world’s leading paparazzi site, TMZ. (Kudos to Brian over at As Belgrano Byrnes for the heads up on TMZ.)
*Photo from the Casa Rosada Press Office
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I’d prefer a less fashionable first lady with a little more of a brain.
I would like to see her dressed so beautifully in a COFFIN.
That’s pretty ugly, Marci, even if you don’t like the president. Pretty damn ugly.
Taos
She has the brain of a C**t. And only few can beat her at being so despicable and such a scumbag.
So does the devil wear Prada?
Haha, that’s hilarious, Conor.
Taos
Taos, please, let me know what is really ugly! And it’s not that I dislike her. I just hate her to the extent that i would like to see her gone like ashes gone with the wind. She costs argentineans too much money; and people who cause so much damage do not deserve to live. I’m in for the dead penalty and I’m in for the elimination of C**nts like this B**ch. You don’t agree, get a form and apply to a the sorority of the “opinionated with no foundations”, where Heidi presides the meetings.
Her sense of style is almost always ok, pity all that make up. She sometimes looks like a clown. I find it nice the way she keeps her dress style feminine unlike some other female Head of State. Nevertheless, I wish she would spend less attention o clothes, handbags and shoes and more attention to the country she swore to lead into progress. Given the circumstances… she is absorbed by her wardrobe to notice anything else.
Marci, what you said is out of place. You can’t fight corruption and moral disintegrate with the same stick. Your comment shows you’re not better than her.