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The majority of chefs prefer to tie the handkerchief with a Gordian knot.

Sometimes the tie happens to become a livery, a uniform, a flag even. An important statement, appropriate for important meetings. Amongst the better known the presidential ties spring to mind: the summit ties, diplomatic flagships. Only when meeting “Madame guillotine” sovereigns would lose their ties: only a blip, an exception …

In the world of sports the tie can sometimes reveal an unexpected team spirit, by becoming a distinctive feature of a team uniform or a national squad’s plain clothes. This unusual role adopted by the tie, far from conformism, is due rather to the desire to symbolically mark association, complicity. …