Is Marissa Mayer, the new face of fashion in the workplace?

Face it, most of us not to women in the C-suite to look for their inspiration. It can start, because change Marissa Mayer. Yahoo took out a leader, and she got when she anointed Mayer, a veteran of Google, its CEO. This power star is mainly due to its small soft spot for high fashion. It's not often you hear women in leadership positions make statements like: "For women, you have never enough excuses to wear big shoes," that Mayer did in 2008. Silicon Valley luminaries including Mark Zuckerberg reinvented the wheel in terms of what is acceptable, jeans in the office, when to wear shower shoes and Zuckerberg. Mayer confessed, a self-addict Oscar de la Renta, very anti-Zuckerberg is going to work as far as style. "Oscar de la Renta is an amazing designer that works really well with color and detail that I think is something that is inspiring," says Mayer Yelp.com. De la Renta told Vogue, "She is one of my biggest customers." Mayer himself once paid $ 60,000 at a charity event for the lunch with the designer. The executive branch has once glittering fashion over the years had. She wore a dress by Balenciaga vintage wear to the opening of an exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco last year. She chose a dress floral Oscar de la Renta for a State Dinner at the White House last year's tribute Germany (Rihanna wore a version of the same dress at the Brit Awards 2011). When Zachary Mayer bug in 2009, Mi, she walked down the aisle in a custom Naeem Khan dress, embroidered snowflakes. Designers include other favors Mayer Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci and Jonathan Saunders. It is a passion for fashion is estimated by Mayer offered at $ 300 million net assets. Mayer has clearly not afraid to show her fashionista side. She sits at the top in the salons during Fashion Week in New York. When they added to Vanity Fair Best Dressed poll last year by the likes of Kate Middleton and Tilda Swinton was, she took to Twitter to ask people to vote for them. And women reported that Google employees with trips Mayer is often issues such as the latest must-have Proenza Schouler handbags shot. Yes, there certainly have been drying rack in the corner in front of the office. During the tenure of CEO Andrea Jung of Avon, she was famous for his collection for Chanel skirt suits, occasional tightening Giorgio Armani trouser suits for casual Fridays. For most, however, the leaders of women in the Fortune-500-mode approach with caution at best. Mayer is a different kind of management mode, both forward and identified himself with it. In the same vein as Michelle Obama, Mayer said in her wardrobe that you can both material and have fun with what you wear. Mayer said the Los Angeles Times, "Our country, in particular, and each challenge was to bring more women into technical fields and engineering. It is good to show that you do not need to sacrifice your sense of femininity, because you are an engineer. " His ability, the line between those who love fashion and ambitious framework to follow is one of many ways that Mayer, the perception of what it means to be a CEO is going to change his wife to be TODAY "today. As said, for his work style philosophy of the Mayer Wall Street Journal: "I think you should cut a song in which mode a bit of flair, a little color or interesting detail has to choose, and then they mate with more fundamental. " It will most likely be a bumpy ride for Mayer at Yahoo. But at least we get to have fun dissecting her fashion choices and taking a few notes on his style, along the way.