Dozens of heads of state and government will soon be floating in New York for the annual UN General Assembly: It’s a colorful, sometimes folkloric hustle and bustle with exotic presentations in sari, burnoos and caftans.
Once Muammar Gaddafi even had his tent pitched in Central Park until the mounted police intervened. He had left the camels at home.
Twice a year the metropolis is carnivalesque: at the Halloween Parade and the Met Gala, the social highlight. Museum director Max Hollein and Vogue boss Anna Wintour shouted – and the birds of paradise came: Kim Kardashian in a black full-body burqa outfit or Rihanna as the black queen of the night. And in contrast, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the figurehead of the left wing of the Democrats, in white robe and the appeal for a tax on the rich in the signal color red: “Tax the Rich.” The Trump Republicans shouted.
With a fashion statement, a local trio on the diplomatic parquet of the UN could stand out from the gray-black-blue suit wearers of the EU: Alexander Van der Bellen, Sebastian Kurz and Alexander Schallenberg in Styrian suits and traditional jackets, depending on their preference with more green or green turquoise splashes of color. With a ladies’ entourage in a dirndl. (four)
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