Jacinda Ardern was phootographed on Auckland's Bethells Beach. (Photo / NZ Herald)

Strike a pose: Jacinda Ardern's Vogue photoshoot

Lifestyle

Author: NZ Herald,
Publish Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018, 8:30AM

Vogue has released its new Jacinda Ardern article and photoshoot, describing the New Zealand Prime Minister as the "Anti-Trump".

Ardern appears in the American edition of the renowned fashion and lifestyle magazine, which also has British and Italian editions.

She is pictured on Hooker Farm at Bethells Beach, wearing a high-fashion trench coat, pastel blue trousers and a white top.

"Ardern is clear-eyed about what a prime minister of New Zealand, a country with a population of under five million, can achieve on the world stage," reports Vogue. "'We're small,' she says, 'but we do our bit by standing up for what we believe in'."

Call her the anti-Trump: New Zealand’s prime minister, @jacindaardern, is young, dynamic, forward-looking, and unabashedly liberal. https://t.co/oGMhYS01Sd
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) February 14, 2018

Vogue describes Ardern as "young, forward-looking and uabashedly liberal".

"New Zealand has had two women prime ministers before, but neither made possibility and opportunity feel as contagious as Ardern, whose election slogan was cheerfully assertive: 'Let's do this'," writes the author of the article, Amelia Lester.

"And yet she became prime minister only after a tense period of negotiations (and compromise) with the nationalist NZ First party. Through it all she has spoken about issues of poverty and homelessness in her country with a blend of Bernie Sanders's bluntness and Elizabeth Warren's fearlessness. 'Yes, we believe in globalisation and trade, but we also believe in you being able to benefit from that more,' says Ardern. 'For too long, we progressives have seemed like part of the system. We need to start thinking about whether or not it's delivering for us now'."

The report followed her election campaign, which saw Labour win 36.9 per cent of the vote last September, to her recent baby announcement.

By appearing in Vogue, the Prime Minister follows in the footsteps of British Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US First Lady Michelle Obama.