At full throttle

On March 29, in the midst of the pension reform crisis, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, changed her mind by receiving Edouard Philippe, mayor of Le Havre, president of the Horizons party and himself a former prime minister. What did they talk about? From 49.3? Demonstrations ? Police brutality? Of Emmanuel Macron in Pif? From Marlene Schiappa in Playboy? Matignon decoration? From the fading of Edouard Philippe? Or the ingratitude of the position? One thing is certain: they concluded that it was better to laugh about it.

Battle horse

To receive her illustrious guest, Elisabeth Borne had put away her usual Agnès b pressure vests. and put on a coat cut in a black mouliné wool, with red flashes, tightened at the waist and flared skirt. This type of coat is historically referred to by the term “redingote”, directly derived from the riding coat. From there to think that Elisabeth Borne still holds the reins…

At a glance

That day, facing Edouard Philippe, Elisabeth Borne was also accessorized with glasses with pierced lenses, characterized as much by their lack of charm as by their lack of frames. This is at least an opportunity to recall that this type of model spread at the beginning of the 20th century, first across the Atlantic, and that American President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the very first to wear it publicly. It is even said that the latter gave these glasses a large part of their popularity.

Assumed pathology

From the back, facing Elisabeth Borne, Edouard Philippe is distinguished by his hair as if stained with black. Victim of painless alopecia, as he said, as well as a second benign autoimmune disease, the boss of the Horizons party has indeed lost his hair and body hair in recent months, but not his sense of perspective. Faced with recurring questions about his illness, his usual response of relativizing his suffering in relation to young people struck by the same ailments is a model of its kind.

The top of the square

Note the presence, in the background, of a checkerboard tiled floor, forcing us to salute Andrée Putman. If this type of checkerboard appeared in English homes from the Victorian era, it was the designer who was at the origin of its popularization in the mid-1980s, during the renovation of the mythical Morgans Hotel. , At New York. For lack of sufficient means to use marble, Andrée Putman decorated each bathroom of the establishment with a black and white checkerboard which was essential everywhere thereafter.