Giorgia Meloni and the politics of power dressing

The first female prime minister of Italy wears Armani.

It began in late October, when Giorgia Meloni, founder of the hard-right Brothers of Italy party and leader of the conservative coalition that won the national election, wore three dark Armani pantsuits on the three days of formal transition of power from Mario Draghi’s government to her own. She wore an Armani with a black shirt for her first official photograph with her ministers, an…