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Imelda to cash in on bling
06/11/2006 15:05 - (SA)
Manila, Philippines - Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, notorious for an extensive shoe collection and eye-popping jewels accrued under her husband's dictatorship, is launching a jewellery collection she "recycled" using castoffs from her old wardrobe.
Marcos, known for her shopping trips to ritzy shops in New York while the country wallowed in poverty, made the one-of-a-kind pieces from her old accessories and clothes, mixed with newly bought stones and other materials.
Her daughter, Rep Imee Marcos, said that unknown to many people, her mother shops for trinkets and accessories at flea markets, and keeps earrings with a missing pair or brooches that have some missing stones.
Using her own glue gun, scissors or pliers, Imelda "can combine them with her vintage items in a way that comes out beautiful", Imee said during a promotional photo shoot that journalists were invited to.
The 77-year-old grandmother and widow of Ferdinand Marcos took time out on Monday to talk to reporters in between hectic photo shoots for brochures that will launch The Imelda Collection of fashion jewellery later this month.
Lying on a divan in a Manila hotel's seaside garden, Imelda was clad in gossamer top with a butterfly design and black pants for the photographs. For the brochure, she modelled several chunky necklaces, rings and bracelet sets, some made with fake tiger eye stones.
Pointing to a set of matching earrings and brooch made of blue imitation tiger eye stone she was wearing, she told reporters, "This thing I wear now is something I recycled."
Imelda said the jewellery collection was the idea of her grandson Martin "Borgy" Manotoc, who was directing the photo shot.
Manotoc, Imelda said, told her, "You are creating beautiful things, like jewels from practically garbage."
The collection will be officially launched on November 18, most likely in Manila.
- AP
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