The documentary on Imelda Marcos is fascinating in its exploration of the life and extrangances of the Filipino dictator and his wife. She often describes luxury as "beauty" which she expresses as an entitlement. In her attempt to define luxury, she uses an equation which divorces luxury from wealth and abundance, but coming from a woman who had thousands of pairs of shoes, mostly bespoke or from designers like Ferragamo, how could she not consider the financial aspect??? Beauty comes at a price, and luxury at an even greater one.
How much are you willing to pay for a product? who determines that price and how do we personally justify our fashion or luxury purchases?
Back to the 2700 shoes she is said to have owned...is this obscene or luxurious?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1173911.stm
"There's a little Imelda in all of us"
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