On Monday afternoon, 8 September, Queen Máxima officially opened Waste-Free Week, organized by the foundation Together Against Food Waste (Samen Tegen Voedselverspilling) at Cultuur Haven Veghel. The initiative aims to raise consumer awareness of the extent of unnecessary food waste and how it can be prevented at home.
Queen Máxima attended part of the plenary program. After the opening ceremony, members of the Shelf Life Coalition discussed new shelf-life icons for food and beverage packaging. The Queen then joined a school class taking part in a “look-smell-taste” lesson on shelf life. The event also featured company innovations and initiatives designed to reduce food waste among both businesses and consumers.
In the Netherlands, around 20 percent of all food produced goes uneaten. Waste occurs throughout the chain—from farm to fork, from production to restaurants. Preventing food waste contributes to a sustainable food system, a better climate, reduced land use, and the preservation of biodiversity.
Through Together Against Food Waste, companies, knowledge institutions, governments, and civil society organizations are working toward halving food waste by 2030 compared with 2015 levels. Waste-Free Week is one of the foundation’s key initiatives and is organized in cooperation with the Netherlands Nutrition Centre (Voedingscentrum).
A messy, wrinkly looking outfit with a strange hat perched on the head. At least the hair is pulled back in a tidy-do.
ReplyDeleteÉlégante jupe rayée déjà vue que je pourrais bien combiner avec un haut rouille ou orange brûlée ; je porterai un léger serre-tête !
ReplyDeleteQueen Maxima's outfit is a rewear from 2016.
ReplyDeleteThe outfit is a rewear from 2016. The skirt is still all-right. I don't like the color of the blouse. An orange, blue or yellow blouse (one of the colors of the stripes) would create a better contrast.
ReplyDeleteThe blouse is beautifull, cut and colour; the skirt asks for a more casual top in a different colour. Her hair is beautifully done, but the hairpiece of a bygon age.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I’d love to see a brighter coloured top. And definitely retire that headpiece. Her hair is beautifully styled today so there’s no need to cover it up. (V.M.)
DeleteI was surprised to see that this outfit is still in rotation, I can remember Maxima wearing it in 2016 in Australia.
ReplyDeleteThe skirt is as fresh as ever - but I would prefer to see it styled with a crisp white collared shirt and belted (the way Rania would wear it) - rather than with this blouse, which to my eye is too soft to connect with the structural sharpness and stiffness of the skirt.
Maxima has a lot of 1950s-style calot hats like this one; but much as I love to see them with 1950s-style outfits, I dont think this outfit is a good match. I'd rather see a wide skirt like this paired with a wider hat style. Lyra
Well said Lyra!
DeleteI like the skirt, the blouse is okay but not with this skirt. Somehow it doesn’t match up with the soft fabric of the blouse and stiffness of the skirt. Regardless she looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteI love that Maxima honours opening ceremonies with hats! I find the skirt and accessories very cheery but would have preferred any other colour for the top/hat as this one washes even Maxima out. Possibly too a tshirt like top would pair better than a blouse top given that the skirt is very full.
ReplyDeleteMaxima's outfit would look better without the pancake on her head.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why she doesn't adapt her outfit to the occasion. It's a school project on waste management, not a meeting with diplomats.
Look at how Queen Mary of Denmark, the Princess of Wales or the Duchess of Edinburgh (for example, on her current visit to Canada) go to youth meetings or to visits to farms or factories - something less formal, less shiny, understated. They save the hats and fascinators for Trooping the Colours, memorial services and the like. In protocol lectures, they always told us: "Learn to read the space. Don't be too underdressed, don't be too overdressed.
Stephanie
… or you can think of it as I do, that she chooses to honour these people equally as she does people with more power of money, dressing brightly and with a hat for their project opening ceremony. I love that about her and don’t want her to change!
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