Looking at the photos it looks like one of those private markets organized to empty the houses but the hanging clothes or the shirts lying on the table are not just anyone. Is called “The García Márquez Wardrobe»The sale of extraordinary clothes that belonged to Nobel Prize for Letterature Gabriel García Márquez and his wife Mercedes All started last October 20 to coincide with the opening of the House of the Letteratura Gabriel García Márquez in Mexico City in the couple’s last residence.
He thought about orchestrating the unusual launch of the project Emilia Garcia Elizondo, one of Gabo’s granddaughters who will be the director of the cultural center in the Mexican capital. There are 400 pieces that Emilia García has personally selected in two months spent putting her hands in the wardrobe of her grandparents kept in a very rigorous order by Mercedes.
In this garage, more unique than rare, there is everything: coats, dresses, shoes and ankle boots, bags, handkerchiefs, ties and shirts but above all tweed jackets, some of which are of particular value not only for the admirers of García Márquez.
Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez with tweed jacket and Vuitton bag in Cuba for Fidel Castro’s 80th birthday. Photo Diane Maya / AFP via Getty Images
DIANE MAYAA black and white striped jacket has an ink stain while the pockets of others still held the pens with which he wrote. Alongside a majority of tailored garments, there are also some brands such as Calvin Klein, Armani e Hugo Boss, bags of Louis Vuitton, a jacket Burberry but also Dior silk stockings, Mercedes clothes (many of Marina Rinaldi) that he has worn all his life. If the white linen dress with which the writer received the Nobel Prize in 1982 is jealously preserved at the National Museum of Colombia in Bogota, that of his wife, on the other hand, green with velvet leaves applied, makes a fine show on a mannequin, ready to be purchased.
“Entering someone’s closet is something so intimate” said the niece, an actress in life, who confesses that the experience also helped her to get to know her father’s parents better Gonzalo. A mapping that began last year when Mercedes also left (the writer instead passed away in 2014), born from the need to make that space available not only for workshops, presentations and meetings but also for social events. and solidarity, including this sale: the proceeds will in fact be allocated to Fisanim Foundation which takes care of the children of the indigenous community of Chapas, led by the actress and friend of Gabo Ophelia Medina.
The only source to understand how to access the sale is the Instagram profile CDL Gabriel Garcia Marquez and, apparently, the opportunity is only for those who physically show up there with an appointment to be made via email.
“Things are starting to go away,” he told The nation Emilia struggling with detachment from those memorabilia which, as she herself states with amazement, “still have the smell of grandparents”. The timing is not accidental. Between October and November in Mexico there is the «Day of the Dead»: A way to remember loved ones who are no longer there but on the day when souls are allowed to return to earth, that’s where life is celebrated.
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