Henry Kissinger Wants You to #AskHimMore

Henry Kissinger on Fox News. (Photo: Getty Images)

You can’t be a woman of note — hell, any woman — and leave the house without being asked what you’re wearing. It’s often the only question actresses are asked, and there are entire blogs dedicated to what women like Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton wear — both of which are reasons why the #AskHerMore movement has gathered such momentum over the past year.

Well, it’s time for the movement to name a face: someone whose fame and reach can finally put a stop to frivolous questions like, “Where did you buy your shoes?” And that person is obviously Henry Kissinger.

The New York Times spent a recent lunch hour at New York’s famed Four Seasons restaurant. Legendary for too many reasons to count — it was designed by Philip Johnson and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and everyone from JFK to the Dalai Lama’s tucked into the food — the restaurant will close down in July, leaving the city’s richest, most powerful diners without a friendly neighborhood joint. In honor of its 56-year run, the paper of record asked a string of diners, ranging from Martha Stewart and RNC finance chairman Lewis Eisenberg to Agnes Gund, the president emeritus of MoMA, and a guy who does visuals for Acne Studios, what they chose to wear to their fancy midday meal. The answers are glorious. “My father was born and raised in Italy, and a gentlemen named Giovanni was a tailor. I had all of my clothes made by Giovanni in Rome,” says one investment banker.

“Because my birthday is in December, I wear red every single day, either an Alexander McQueen red dress or Dolce & Gabbana,” says a red-headed wine consultant, while an Hermes-clad Stewart noted that she never goes “anywhere for lunch without getting cookies for the driver.”

Saved for last, of course, is the best. After dining on white truffle risotto, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s having none of writer John Ortved’s fashion questions.

If your first thought is, duh! Henry Kissinger is way too important to talk about clothes — I could dispute your point by going on and on about the very important women whose wardrobes are dissected on a regular basis, from Hillary Clinton to Angela Merkel, and you would understand how invalid that argument is.

But he’s a cute old man who doesn’t look interested in discussing fashion’s gender politics and, lucky for him, had a date with Fox News to talk about far more important matters after lunch — like ISIS, Donald Trump, and the misogyny of the mani-cam. JK!