This week, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands had a double workday. In the morning, she visited the Royal Institute for Language, Country, and Ethnology, known as KITLV, in Leiden, to celebrate its 175th anniversary.
Maxima is the patron of this institute, which studies colonial history and its impact on the present, with a focus on the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and the so-called “International Netherlands.”
She then traveled to Amsterdam to learn more about the ZE&GG program at the UMC Amsterdam. This initiative, titled “Less is More,” focuses on identifying medical treatments that remain in clinical guidelines but offer little to no real value to patients in practice.
For a day filled with technical visits and work meetings, she chose a yellow outfit from Natan, pairing the Darla top with a bag from the same brand, and matching Gianvito Rossi’s Gianvito 105 pumps in yellow suede. Everything in the same tone, from head to toe, with no mixing or contrasting colors.
It’s a bold move, as a full-on, vibrant yellow monochrome can easily be too much. However, Maxima pulls it off with the ease of someone who knows exactly how to work with color. That’s precisely what sets the Dutch queen’s style apart from that of other European royals.