IMELDA MARCOS FASHION FACTS

1200 pairs of shoes, 800 purses, hundreds of gowns and several paintings by Monet and Picasso were left In 1986, when she and Ferdinand fled to Hawaii.

In 2006, at age 77,

Imelda launched her own fashion label, the Imelda Collection.

Her jewellery collection was valued at $8 million.

The Marikina Shoe Museum in the Philippines still displays 800 pairs of Imelda’s shoes. 150 boxes of Imelda’s clothes, shoes, and jewellery were stored in the Philippines National Museum but were subsequently destroyed by termites, mould and water damage.