A meeting of women who write about women was held on Tuesday afternoon in one of the rooms of the Trocadero restaurant in Madrid. A gathering with a 99 percent female audience and the data does not lie: 70 percent of all consumption comes from the work and grace of women. The appointment smelled of printed paper and a hard-cover book.
Four women, Marta Robles, Belén Junco, Cruz Sánchez De Lara and Olga Ruiz They talked about their literary creatures, but also about their concerns, about the relationships of friendship, love and sex of women, about their muses and their fears. They all took the opportunity to sign their books, and there is nothing like a good chat, a delicious canapé and an afternoon of reading.
As expected, many friends and acquaintances attended this meeting, but I opted for the shoe designer Isabel Abdo, the favorite of many celebritiesand that he has so much to thank Queen Letizia herself, one of the first to opt for her shoes.
“Just before the pandemic I launched my collection and you can imagine how I felt once they ordered us to stay indoors. The few options there were to go out were not to wear heels but to wear sneakers. I had all my new shoes and I had to wait for the end of the pandemic to start making private presentations among friends. I remember that in one of my first interviews they asked me which ambassador I would like to have and I had no doubts: Queen Letizia. She has always been a woman who has artfully defended heels and to that she added that my manufacturing was a product one hundred percent made in Spain. I spoke to her stylist to offer to give her some shoes and the answer was that they don’t accept gifts at the Palace. Yes, then He asked me for some models to show him in one of the sessions that involve choosing costumes and he liked precisely the smallest ones, the 5 cm ones.. They bought them for me and I wore them in public. Without a doubt he was my best support. He currently has three of my shoes in different colors and it is lucky that he liked them“, He told me.
For Isabel, the fact that today Queen Letizia has a foot illness apart from this week’s break in the phalanx, does not mean that heels have entered into a crisis. “I’ve been wearing heels my whole life and I haven’t had any problems. What happens is that The queen has to be on her feet for many hours because of her job. and it is true that heels are tiring on long days. I can boast of having super comfortable lasts., but obviously women wear heels to go out to dinner or to go somewhere but not to do the shopping or go for a walk. That’s why I have three types of heels and that means we all find the model we need. “The sensible heel that they now call the 5 cm one is becoming super fashionable.”
The president of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso is also another of Abdo’s clients. “I came to her thanks to Vicky Martín Berrocal, who is a very good friend of hers and usually dresses her when she has ceremonies. Vicky told me that she was going to show her my shoes and she loved them. He has the tallest ones, 10 cm, and he defends them very well“, clarifies Isabel, but not before assuring me that she does not give away shoes: “Everyone pays me and I also don’t have that business capacity”.
Marta Robles, Carmen Lomana, Vicky Martín Berrocal… They are clients, they are friends and they are women who like to wear a good heel. I also talk to Isabel about the war that some feminists have precisely against that type of shoe. “I have had to remove many comments from my Instagram account because of the things that some women insist on leaving on my account in their particular war with heels that they define as something sexist. What I don’t understand is why they follow me if they are so horrified by those things.“. Well, you are absolutely right.
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