Campaigns often incorporate topical issues, such as addressing Imelda Marcos'a shoe fetish in 1986 with the line, “Imelda Marcos bought 2,700 pairs of shoes. She could've at least had the courtesy to buy a pair of ours.”
Later, Ye was accepted into Beijing University where she studied English before being assigned to the Foreign Ministry as a translator for the delegations of such dignitaries as Queen Elizabeth II, Ronald Reagan and Imelda Marcos.
Under the supervision of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, it was constructed in 1976 for the visit of Libya's President Muammar al-Gaddafi, although his visit was cancelled.
Her frequent shopping sprees became tabloid fodder, with some in the press dubbing her “Imelda” for her love of shoes (she allegedly had over 100 pairs).
Following her book Shoes Never Lie, the Boston Globe described her as "perhaps the leading authority on the spiritual, emotional and visceral connection between women and shoes" (for a story on the shoe collection of Imelda Marcos).
The shoes of Imelda Marcos are sometimes taken as a sign of compulsive buying disorder.
In 1983, then-Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos reportedly bought fifty-two paintings of Gobillard for US$273,000 (US$640,141.14 in 2013 dollars) from the Hammer Galleries, a New York-based art gallery as part of her extravagant overseas spending sprees during her husband's political reign.
Twice Blessed was described as a “comic parable” concerned about the Philippines’ status, at the time of writing, as “a nation struggling to be born.” It was published when Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos were exiled in Hawaii, USA.
Ferdinand Marcos | Imelda Marcos | National University of San Marcos | San Marcos | Marcos Witt | Imelda Staunton | San Marcos, Texas | Marcos Valle | Marcos Zurinaga | Marcos Pontes | Marcos Baghdatis | Imelda May | San Marcos, California | Marcos A. Rodriguez | Marcos Alonso Peña | San Marcos River | San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District | Marcos Highway | Marcos de Niza | Castillo de San Marcos | Albrook "Marcos A. Gelabert" International Airport | San Marcos Province | San Marcos, Guatemala | Marcos Pérez Jiménez | Marcos Paulo | Marcos Oliveira | Marcos Freitas | Marcos de Niza High School | Marcos Ambrose | Imee Marcos |
Marcos appeared on his father's true-to-life story film, Iginuhit ng Tadhana, as himself, along with Vilma Santos as his sister Imee Marcos, Luis Gonzales as his father and Gloria Romero as his mother.
Mrs. Navarro Pedrosa wrote a critical biography of the then-First Lady Imelda Marcos, during the Martial Law Era in the Philippines.