Introducing the Fashtonometer
— A visual approach to the many fashion gaffes of Lady Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign affairs head.”
Ashton’s speech today in Strasbourg – on the External Action Service – was just too much and I’m not talking about her proposals.
It’s rather that I’m not sure I can stomach the rollout of another new outfit. As Ashton’s star rises, the palatability of her personal style plummets.
So far, I’ve been unable to work out who’s responsible for these outrages but I’m keeping a close eye on the situation.
Below you’ll find my Fashtonometer, a scale that I’ve thrown together to enable me to measure the status of each new abomination:
Catherine Ashton’s dress sense should give all Member States cause for concern and is, I believe, a strong candidate for regulation at the European level.
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.
March 11th, 2010 at 17:13
Marvellous work you’ve done here Mike! (And so-so true!)
;o)