Her look is on the money

IMF director Christine Lagarde arrived at last month’s World Economic Forum on a mission.

“I am here with my little bag to collect a bit of money,” she said at the Global Outlook 2012 debate, holding a Louis Vuitton tote aloft in demonstration (she sought €500bn from the assembled leaders, to bolster the fund’s resources).

Her words were a sound bite for the two kinds of media she generates: financial and fashion.