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Hello, and happy day after National Handbag Day! Did you know that was a thing? I did not.

Otherwise, it’s been relatively quiet in fashionland, mostly because — well, impeachment. In fact, I think my favorite style moment of the week may have been the photos of Vladimir Putin’s birthday jaunt to the fields and wilderness of Siberia. Rarely have I seen so much army green employed to such a picaresque extent.

President Putin is, of course, known for his exciting photo ops (a.k.a. propaganda for the Instagram age), which often feature him in various roguish, he-man poses. He has posed shirtless on a horse, shirtless while fishing thigh deep in a lake in camo pants, hunting with a big gun, in a wet suit and riding a motorbike in a black leather jacket.

In fact, he has become so associated with leather jackets that one British company, Matchless, named a style after him in 2017.