For them: Plicht and Valkyrie
Every year, the Bayreuth Festival is proof that Germany and glamor are mutually exclusive. It’s a silk taffeta orgy, and in the end only Gloria von Thurn und Taxis looks like one looks in 2022. And it has a lock! Everyone else plays castle princess. No, the clothes are not cheap. Rather, they are way overpriced for the look they produce. But for the thrifty, hard-working, filthy rich medium-sized company from the German provinces: right on the limit of what you are willing to spend on superfluous things. The so-called real values are not considered superfluous, for example an expensive wristwatch, which Karin Baumüller-Söder wears here indelicately with her evening dress. The shareholder of the Baumüller Group, a manufacturer of drive and automation systems and wife of Markus Söder, wears the perfect example of such a reasonable dress. It looks like it’s from a boutique that has the term bridal and evening wear in its name. The fabric is too shiny, the draping of the bodice too valkyrie and the skirt too much sheer. So that the wearer does not trip over the hem, it ends pragmatically a few millimeters above the floor. In combination with that inexplicable golf club tan, the layered cut blow-dried inwards with the bangs carefully separated from the rest of the hairstyle and the shellac nails, we are suddenly: in the middle of Germany. Bayreuth, the place where you face the truth.
For him: Old snakeskin
Thomas Gottschalk is one of the very manageable number of German celebrities whose sight still mostly puts us in a mild mood. Although he was never particularly interested in it, he has just become a BRD mascot and the epitome of the good old days, which have gotten much better and older in recent years. What’s amazing is that you mostly overlooked his strange clothes, almost like you do with a child who is just going through the make-up phase. Somehow you always took his grotesque elevators as the first losing bet in “Wetten, Dass…?” there. Grandma had to say something like: “Yes, good heavens!” on the sofa. And then it was good too. But did you ever get an explanation as to why he dressed himself up so extravagantly? It didn’t suit him or the show in the multi-purpose hall setting. Be that as it may, he seems to have a certain penchant for snakeskin, even without a season ticket for the ZDF prop. And where, if not to the premiere in Bayreuth, does such a funny mixture of three-piece suit, tuxedo and ringmaster fit? Gottschalk has also combined quite well, tinted glasses and vest belong together in color, shoes and jacket complement each other in terms of pattern, and his companion’s dress was also planned in the mix. So yes, it’s okay, you can leave it. But only because we all still reflexively whistle the Eurovision tune when we see him and don’t ask any more questions. Just Gottschalk.