Special Envoy to Marikina
Pumps, stiletto heels, slippers set with feathers… Pairs of shoes in shiny leather worked over the years are lined up behind the windows framed in dark wood, like relics.
They are nearly 300, methodically classified by color, from magenta red to white enhanced with glitter.
A fraction of Imelda Marcos' extravagant collection estimated at more than 3,000 pairs line up in this modest Shoe Museum nestled in an 18th-century colonial-style Estancia in Marikina, an east Manila suburb.
Chanel, Charles Jourdan, Bally or Beltrami, their models smell good of the "swinging sixties", and remind us that the former first lady of the Philippines, now 92 years old, has always had a weakness for the best shoemakers in Paris or Milano.
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