Imelda Marcos to launch her own jewelry collection


Imelda Marcos in People's Tonite headline


By TERESA CEROJANO

MANILA (AP) -- Imelda Marcos, notorious for an extensive collection of shoes and diamonds accrued under her husband's dictatorship, is launching a jewelry collection using castoffs from her wardrobe and, she claims, flea market finds.


Marcos, known for her shopping trips to ritzy shops in New York while the country wallowed in poverty before the dictatorship ended 20 years ago, said she made the 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.

Using a glue gun, scissors or pliers, her mother ``can combine them with her vintage items in a way that comes out beautiful,'' Imee Marcos told reporters Monday during a promotional photo shoot for ``The Imelda Collection,'' which is to be launched Nov. 18 in Manila.

The 77-year-old widow of Ferdinand Marcos reclined on a divan in the seaside garden of a Manila hotel to pose for photos, modeling several chunky necklaces, rings and bracelet sets for a brochure of the collection.

Pointing to a set of matching earrings and brooch made of blue imitation tiger eye stone she was wearing, she said: ``This thing I wear now is something I recycled.''

She said the jewelry collection was the idea of her grandson, Martin ``Borgy'' Manotoc, who told her, ``You are creating beautiful things, like jewels from practically garbage.''

The first designs are only for jewelry and will ``not yet'' include shoes, her daughter said. But an aide said there are plans to expand the collection to include shoes, clothes and possibly furniture.

``What we are selling is not something valuable, but ... it is something invaluable because it's only beauty that can feed the spirit,'' Imelda Marcos said.

She said the items would cost from US$ 20 to US$ 100 (euro15.67 to euro78.37), though her daughter said prices and details were still being ironed out.

``The accessories are just an excuse. It's just a visual and tactile reminder of this attitude she wishes to share, the Imelda spirit, the Imelda way and that's what it will represent,'' Imee Marcos said.

The jewelry collection is a far cry from the dozens of suitcases of genuine diamond tiaras, ruby brooches, emerald necklaces and other jewels the government confiscated from Marcos and which officials plan to auction off.

The Marcoses have been accused of amassing ill-gotten wealth and were toppled by a 1986 ``people power'' uprising. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile in Hawaii three years later and his widow returned to the Philippines in 1991.

haha. how many of 'em from the Golden Buddha melt collection?

I can't stand her @$$.

what would the philippines be without the marcoses,they had become the icon for philippines even though they were bad people.anyways does she have a website where she is selling the jewelry?it would be interesting to see what kind of jewelry she is selling and if i find something of interest i might just go for it.

U.S. puppet launching jewelry collection? lol

Check out Imee Marcos site http://www.imeermarcos.com/index.php

I expect to see her on QVC soon enough. All the washed up 'celebrities' seem to congregate on that shopping network and sell jewelries or some low quality crap.

what would it be? not sure about everything but i'm sure several billion dollars richer.

Call that " Imelda's Marcos Ukay-ukay collections"

Dapat mura na ang mga iyan?????

So how can we say that Mrs. Marcos a U.S. Puppet if theres Gloria Macapagal Arroyo around.
She ( GMA ) looks more not just a puppet but more look like a Housefly roving around a rotten fruit.


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Think about it !
Phillippines Economy is much better in times of Marcos than today w/ Gloria.

This is what happens to people when their heads are shoved so far up their a$$es long enough.

America distanced themselves from the Marcoses when they realized what a decaying piece of turd Marcos, his wife and his cronies really were.

Pull yor head out of your a$$ already. They should've executed the Marcoses a long time ago.

World's Most Corrupt Leaders: http://www.infoplease.com/toptens/corruptleaders.html


Wake up and smell the coffee, B!TCH!!!!!

Well, Mrs. Marcos still had some looks and glamour

America distanced themselves to the administration of Marcos because the Phillippines never needed them.
We have our own Government Policies and we have our own Country.
Whats the sense of having both if there are countries wanted us to follow them.
Look what have happened today huh !
We, The Republic of the Phillippines , is now in the treath of terrorist just because this administration allied with the most crazy people in the world.

I can say that its not bad , but theres are still limitations.
We owe our freedom from the U.S. but it does'nt mean that we should follow everything they said or do.
We have our own mind.
And we have our own hearts.



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It is you that should drink not just a simple coffe but a kapeng barako ( pls. be guided ) .
I've already waken up.
And thats why I can say all this b!tchful things. ( like you have said )

Just auction them off ( and also those shoes ) and donate the sum to charity. At least the Marcoses will be remembered for that rather than ....................

how do ou know? we could of been japanese allies in world war 2 although i would of rather been with the u.s of course but when they declared war they were just as bad as the Japanese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_War

also do the marcos and family have a monopoly of the major companies of the philippines?

The Marcoses had robbed the country's coffer

I doubt if that will ever happened