Guy Martin, Contributor| Forbes|Kleptocracies come apart for all sorts of reasons, but it’s a rare delight that the Zimbabwean military’s to-date rather slick putsch was triggered, in part, by Grace Mugabe’s freely decadent history of luxury shopping. She famously hit one Paris shop for a whopping $75,000, a spree that she denies but that nevertheless has stuck in the popular imagination. European Union sanctions against the Mugabes restricted their Continental appearances only somewhat since the early Aughts. Derisively known in Harare as ‘The First Shopper,’ ‘Gucci Grace,’ and latterly as ‘DisGrace,’ Mrs. Mugabe’s extensive wardrobe features, among other baubles, a reported mountain of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes. Quizzed by a reporter about the footwear, she blithely replied: “I have very narrow feet, so I can only wear Ferragamos.

Source: GNN Liberia November 19, 2017 08:03 UTC