How Madeleine Albright conveys a foreign policy message with a meaningful brooch

The collection includes beautiful brooches such as a Christmas tree in the colors of the American flag, a gold snake brooch, cute figures with buttons, American seals, the colorful Statue of Liberty, and more.

Madeleine Albright, the American diplomat who served under President Bill Clinton as the 64th Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001, died yesterday at 84. She not only went down in history as the first female U.S. Secretary of State after the Cold War but also delivered political statements and feelings through her choice of fashion accessories. Your brooch.

In 2009, Albright wrote a memoir, Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewelry Box, which tells the story of his extended career in politics also the diplomatic history he made with jewelry.

 

Later, the New York Museum of Art and Design held an exhibition entitled Read My Pins: Madeleine Albright's Collection, which includes 50 pin boards and 12 free-standing pins, all in various shapes, forms, and designs to encourage a sense of humor. And the intelligence to convey the secretarial and diplomatic messages through the expressive qualities of adornment.

The collection also includes the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to Albright by President Barack Obama in 2012 and items from the television show Madame Secretary. The exhibition was displayed in 22 presidential libraries and museums from 2009 to 2018.