Since nothing seems to stick on her, Imelda is now fulfilling her dreams of becoming a jewelry designer -- no doubt inspired by her hoi polloi.

Marcos, known for her shopping trips to ritzy shops in New York while the country wallowed in poverty, says 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, and keeps earrings with a missing pair or brooches that have some missing stones.

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 journalists Monday during a promotional photo shoot for "The Imelda Collection," which is to be launched Nov. 18 in Manila.

It's all Borgy's fault.

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."

Read here. Pic from chuvaness (Cecile Zamora, who has a whole bunch of pics you don't wanna miss).

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