The Prime Minister’s Office and Aldo Shoes
This is Mr and Mrs Michelle Muscat’s understanding of art and culture: a ‘feshion’ show at the Office of the Prime Minister.
These photographs are on the Aldo Shoes Malta Facebook page. They are in an album called MRS MUSCAT LOOKS GORGEOUS IN HER ALDO SHOES!!!!!
Such panache. Aldo Shoes are fun, but that’s hardly the point. The point is that the PM’s wife should be promoting no shoes at all, because if things carry on this way we are going to have to start asking questions about whether she’s being compensated in money or kind.
And just in case you were misled by those photographs in Style magazine, and don’t recognise her here, that’s Mrs Michelle Muscat standing on the right and holding a wine-glass very oddly while ‘chetting’, in the bottommost photograph.
And that jolly group must be The High Society, with their patron, Mrs Michelle Muscat, cosied up among them. So let’s get this straight: her husband refuses to address journalists in that courtyard and instead builds a big temporary platform at considerable expense to keep them on the doorstep.
Because the Office of the Prime Minister’s courtyard is now a party place for The High Society.
Opera it ain’t, darlings. But at least they’ve read a book, and we all know what it’s called.
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WHO does her makeup? Please don’t tell me she makes that awful mess herself.
Now I understand why they think they are The High Society.
It’s because of their heels.
Hamalli
Aldo and Mercedes Benz.
When’s Sunseeker and Swarowski?
What the hell is she wearing?
Those shoes with that dress are an absolute fashion disaster.
Shades of Grey
The bottom half looks like a chess board. So these are the high society then? Can t say I see anything inspiring.
Anzi Michelle qieghda mdawra bin-nies li jifhmu fil-fashion fir-ritratt. Ghandha min jaghtiha parir! Fuq ix-xellug fl-ewwel ritratt hemm Adrian J Mizzi li jorganizza l-Malta Fashion Awards.
EMELDA!
Now let’s admit it Daphne. You would have wanted to be there. Maybe not with that crowd but you would have loved such an event with your own High Society wouldn’t you?
[Daphne – No, Aldo Shoes, not at all. Though I rather like a couple of the people involved on a personal level, Marisa Grima/Xuereb for one, who is my contemporary, I have little or nothing in common with most of the others, including Mrs Muscat, and I don’t mean socially. It’s just that life changes and so do our interests. The conversation dries up after five minutes. Not all women are interested in the same things, just as not all men are.
If you mean would I have loved to be at the Auberge de Castille, then I think you forget how long I’ve been in public life. Been there, done that, from an age younger than my own children are now. After years and years of it, one begins declining all but a very few invitations and moves on to other things.
No, the thought of going to a party at the Auberge de Castille does not excite me. It did not even pique my interest when I favoured the incumbents, let alone now. One went out of duty as there is (was) a formality to such things, and that was it.
The thought of a fashion show excites me still less. Bar one or two occasions more than a decade ago, I only ever went when I was on the catwalk, but that was a long time ago now. I find clothes interesting, but I prefer to pick them out myself.]
On a different note I really like reading your blog. Very informative and gives a different perspective – makes you think and reflect on things happening around.
[Daphne – Many thanks. It’s charming of you to say so.]
Aldo Shoes, you miss the point, which is NOT whether Daphne or anybody else would have wanted to be at Castille for that fashion show. (I didn’t say ‘your’ fashion show because it’s not clear if it is your show or not.)
We don’t want Castille to be commercialised in this way. After Aldo Shoes who will be next? It is a completely obscene (in the Latin sense – ‘ob scena’ – out of place) debasement of what the place means and represents to Maltese political life.
We’ve already had enough of Joseph’s new way of doing politics. It’s either he’s so philistine, ignorant and uncultured (read unrefined) or he holds our national traditions and sentiments in utter contempt, or both.
The latest new way of doing politics is the appointment of Gauci Cunningham to the FAMILY Commission!!
It is all so weird. Brings back memories of Mintoff’s 70s and 80s. Only this time it looks even more sinister with the 36.000 vote difference.
I dare say that not even Mintoff stooped so low. Muscatdotcom is an utter calamity to Maltese politics
Muscat had that platform put up for one reason only, so that the video clips show him walking up to the podium, framed by the auberge hallway and with the Maltese and EU flag array in the background. That is the same format used in media conferences by President Obama.
All well and good. Problem is Obama can carry it, Joseph Muscat cunt, sorry, can’t.
Standing behind, and substantially concealed by, the podium in the lofty auberge doorway, the thing that came to mind was the once popular WW2 ditty: Ifthulu l-bieb tal-bombi, ha jghaddi Salvu t-tapp.
Last photo: There’s a sweet girl with her face hidden by Michelle’s wine glass.
Is that the time and occasion to have children running around in the prime minister’s office?
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Shouldn’t that platform be used as a catwalk for Michelle’s fashion shows?
What amazed me too was how her skin was so fair in the Style photoshoot, when in reality she is anything but fair.
[Daphne – We’re in Malta, darling: fair = beautiful. Qisu Ingliz, etc etc.]
That was not her complexion; it was simply pancake (and an overdose of airbrushing).
Has Michelle Muscat got slapped cheek syndrome in the last photo, or is it a case of very-bad, heavy makeup?
Very ‘klessy’, I must say. The bottle blonde to the left of the black and white photo must be Chanelle Debattista, who owns/run a clothes shop called The Wardrobe in a side road round the corner from Champ tal-pastizzi in San Gwann.
The High Society indeed.
Actually, it’s Shanel Debattista – https://www.facebook.com/shanelde?fref=ts – as “klessy” as they come.
That’s a good way to put people off FB.
Qed nara sew jien fl-ewwel rittrat? Hemm wiehed ragel liebes T-shirt iswed u bit-trainers.
What is certainly missing in that motley high-hamalli-society troop is a good dose of the substance Albert Gauci Cunningham is very proud to deal in!
Has the premiership possibly come to this? The PM’s wife allowing herself to be used endorsing fashion brands.
She does it here, did it big time in her interview on a Sunday mag last week and this after less than a hundred days.
God help us in the coming years. We will end up having her on billboards very soon endorsing some brand or other.
F’hiex gejna.
Kemm nifilhu naqghu ghan-nejk.
Coco Chanel with the Duke of Westminster.
Xi hlew.
Bah. Bunch of parvenus. Take away their money, and they’d deflate in an instant.
My last ‘high society’ do was hosted by Ralph Lauren himself, so there.
My last ‘high society’ do was in the local prison. Much more interesting. Even got to wear my matching Calvin Klein’s jeans and jacket. Was all the rage. So there.
Have faith in Manuel Mallia, and he will set you free.
Waqt li kulhadd fir-ritratt jikxef sninu, il-klassi tal-haddiem taqta’ bi snina.
My mum: “Ahjar flok fexin show tixtri suit ghar-ragel ghax m’ghandu xejn jinqafillu sew.”
Is she suffering from slapped cheek syndrome?
Meta se ssir tal-lingerie?
I hate discussing superficialities when there is so much more important things to talk about, but how in the world did she manage to find another way to hold a wine glass wrongly?
But really from the base?
For those who don’t know. Hold it from the stem please or stick to beer, you can’t get that wrong.
Isn’t the lady in the third picture Marianne Valentino, Vince Micallef’s partner?
She reminds me of Visage in the Fade to Grey 80s music video.
So kids were around during this high-society event? Seems so in pic #3
Look at the bags in the third pic. Are they giving Mercedes Benz parts as party favours for the high society?
I think we are mixing events:) The one organised for the so called “high society” ( which by the way, you had to be there to see these high society) was organised at Girgenti. The above photos are taken from Malta Fashion Week, which to tell the truth was quite a professional show.