Brigitte Macron’s Stylist: Man of Mystery<br />But as the stylist that Brigitte Macron — the first lady of France, one of the inspirations for the new acronym WHIP ("women who are hot, intelligent<br />and in their prime") — enlisted, Mathieu Barthelat Colin has somewhat different priorities.<br />It’s as if the 34-year-old materialized out of nowhere when, in June, the website of the French magazine Gala posted a video in which the tall,<br />dashing, bearded stylist was shown (for a couple of seconds) helping a candidate for the French version of "The Bachelor" into a white jacket.<br />But recently she has also taken to wearing sharp jackets by lesser known designers<br />and labels: Alexandre Vauthier (in red or black), Stéfanie Renoma (powder blue) and the tailoring specialist Pallas (beige, at the G20 meeting in July in Hamburg, Germany), the better to cast a halo around a larger group of French names.<br />On a state visit to Greece in September she was spotted wearing a Greek-coin "Profile" ring by Marc Auclert, whose designs incorporate antique artifacts<br />and who is one of the few designers willing to discuss the effect of her favor.<br />The first lady has been loyal to Louis Vuitton, wearing designs by its artistic director, Nicolas<br />Ghesquière, a friend whose runway shows she attended before becoming a public figure.
