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Amal Clooney laughs off silly question in court, When you're a human rights lawyer like Amal Clooney, a day in court is no normal affair.

Hordes of photographers chronicled Clooney's every movement as she entered court in Strasbourg, France, and began a case representing Armenia.

Clooney has taken up Armenia's case against Doğu Perinçek, the leader of the Turkish Workers Party. A Switzerland court fined him in 2008 for denying Armenian genocide a century ago (Switzerland has laws against the denial of all genocide as part of its anti-racism laws), but the case was overturned.

"It cast doubt of the reality of genocide that Armenian people suffered a century ago," said Clooney in court, adding that the stakes "could not be higher for the Armenian people."

Of course, when you're married to George Clooney, you can't escape a personal question or two — even in that setting.

What was she wearing, the Telegraph wanted to know?

"I'm wearing Ede and Ravenscroft," she joked, pointing to her black barrister's robes (referencing the famous English legal robe makers and tailors, in business since 1689).

Well played.

Meanwhile, her storied London colleague Geoffrey Robertson took a positive spin on all the media hoopla, saying at least the attention was in the right place – on Amal's career.

"It is not about white gloves or yachts. It puts the record straight, she is a human rights lawyer," he said.