Why Chelsea’s Imelda Marcos no longer needs her 300 black jackets!

Eat your heart out, Imelda Marcos. Glamorous socialite amanda Eliasch, who received a chunk of her former husband Johan Eliasch’s £400 million fortune following her 2007 divorce settlement, is clearing out her designer wardrobe and holding a gigantic couture boot sale.

‘there are 250 pairs of shoes in the sale,’ she tells me. ‘Manolos, the Guccis and Puccis — and around 300 black jackets. I only wear black jackets. all the items come from my three properties in Cheyne Walk, Paris and Los angeles.’

Eliasch, 59, credits the Duchess of Sussex for inspiring her to downsize her wardrobe.

‘Prince Harry and Meghan Markle urging us reduce our carbon footprint has made me think about waste. I used to be a hoarder, but now I don’t see the point.’

a fashion auction next week at the Swan in tetsworth, Oxfordshire, will be followed by a sale of her furniture and art in October.

the most expensive item is a £75,000 white elephant designed by Marc Quinn which she acquired at a Mark Shand charity auction. ‘the fashion of consumerism is going out of fashion,’ she says.

‘What does it mean to wear high fashion these days? I am at a different age now and when you get older you don’t want to accumulate all this stuff. My poor sons,’ she says. ‘If I croak tomorrow, what on earth will they do with all this stuff?’

amanda has two sons Charlie, 27, and Jack, 23, by sports firm tycoon and tory donor Johan, whom she married in 1988. She divorced him in 2006 after her 11-year affair with a plastic surgeon.

She and her husband were once the toast of London society. they got married in the dinosaur section of the Natural History Museum and the bride left in a sedan chair carried by two former Mr Great Britain bodybuilders.

She expects the sales to raise £250,000 and will give the proceeds to her sons and the charity Inside Success.