Albanian PM dons the classiest, simplest Paris tribute yet

When you want to send a message of support or solidarity, it's often the case the simple dsplay is the most powerful.

It's often the case that a simple message is the most powerful.

At yesterdays' rally of national unity in Paris, world leaders gathered along with thousands of Parisians to commemorate the victims of last week's shootings.

And among them all stood Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, with a simple, beautiful tribute that might have gone unnoticed by his peers.

Pic: Edi Rama.

In place of a man's pocket square (or pochette), Rama wore three artist's pencils in the bright colours of the French flag: blue, white, and red - a fitting tribute to an attack on cartoonists.

Pic: Edi Rama.

Quite apart from being Prime Minister, Rama is an artist and writer himself. His father was a sculptor, and Rama himself has had exhibitions of his artwork several times in the 1990s.

Creative, clever, subtle and classy.