High heels are heavenly. They force you to their supernatural powers debit card to get to the store with you then do leave a benevolent blush. Cheeks the groove Imelda Marcos (Manila, 1929), widow of former President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, should be in her life, at least three thousand times in this mood hallelujah be wrong. With her famous shoe collection she was eight years every day, choosing a new pair: butter soft slippers Charles Jourdan, avant-garde stilts Pierre Hardy platforms anthracite to Jimmy Choo, with or without delicate ankle strap.
"If a woman never take off her high heels, how they then know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?" was the comment of the Australian feminist Germaine Greer read. But in the documentary Imelda (Ramona S. Diaz, 2003), we see just how the high-heeled Marcos during her marriage anthracite to provincial girl rose to become one of the richest and most powerful women in modern history. The sweets to her alabaster feet was a symbol of domination. Whoever prevails, Mrs. Greer, never has to take the legs.
Other ambitious women who influence their husband abuses come this week addressed the theme week in Holland Doc 24: President of the Argentine woman "Evita Peron to NSB widow Florrie Rost van Tonningen. They all committed about vanity of the strategic kind: it was the heel that the clumsy anthracite gait of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu's wife Elena transformed into seductive gehuppel? Intimidated sharp stiletto tapping of NSB widow Florrie Rost van Tonningen a few Nazi stomping boots? Is it a coincidence anthracite that the aristocrats after the French Revolution lowered their heels, so in order to distance themselves from the status the higher heel - for example, Marie Antoinette, they still eat cake? " - Represented?
Gradually Marcos' was excessive lifestyles less sympathy for the Filipino people fall into poverty, but shoes have not lost their divine powers. After Marcos through a popular uprising in 1986 fled to Hawaii, was in the presidential palace found her shoe collection. "Actually, those shoes saved me," says the now back in the Philippines living Marcos. 'Cause when the cabinets were opened, they found no bodies, but shoes. Shoes! " Then a grin: "People are crazy. Recently, I saw that the slogan of an American shoe brand is: There is a little Imelda in all of us. "
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