- Interview..Naty Abascal: "I prefer a miniseries about me to a novel"
Naty Abascal has been the most present Spanish celebrity in our fashion magazines (and from the heart, with permission from Isabel Preysler) for the last 50 years. She is / has been the most beautiful model, the most elegant woman, the most fashionable stylist , the most international Andalusian, the most ubiquitous celebrity, the most aristocratic. All this with the gift of never tiring the public.
That is why it is surprising that we hardly know anything about her in recent months compared to the five decades in which we have witnessed the most important moments of her life; her difficult divorce from the Duke of Feria, the wedding of her son, the birth of his grandchildren, the decoration of his exclusive house in Madrid .... Every year we have envied his holidays on the French Riviera, his dinners in New York, Milan, Paris, London, Moscow , with the most interesting characters ... And Of course, every week we have contemplated the infinite fashion productions that he has made in the magazine Hello! to the women of the moment.
We contacted the myth to ask him the reason for this mysterious low profile (has he retired?) But the Sevillian, the first Spanish woman to appear on a cover of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue USA and to work with Woody Allen, prefers not to speak during confinement, it is intuited very affected by the pandemic . We know that he lost a close decorating friend recently in a nursing home and so we did not insist.
Valentino's donation to the Ifema hospital
We talk to their surroundings and look at their Instagram account, always active, to get answers. Naty turned 77 on April 1 and did it alone in her apartment on Calle Almagro in Madrid. The best of gifts he received the next day: his close friend Valentino (through the Qatari fund Mayhoola, owner of his brand and Balmain, among others) announced the donation of a million euros to the Ifema field hospital , which precisely closed yesterday. Naty has not commented on whether he had anything to do with this initiative, but it is possible that he did.
His son Luis, single, also lives in the city; it is Rafael, married to Laura Vecino and father of his grandchildren, who is far away. He lives in Barcelona, where he works as a director of Massimo Dutti at Inditex and his wife designs swimwear.
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This week, if the pandemic had not occurred, Naty would be in her native Seville, celebrating the fair. There he has another beautiful house with a patio and an apartment that he rents to wealthy tourists . He also has another property in the Algarve where he regrets not being able to move yet.
The most recent notable news related to Naty dates from the month of November and is about the exhibition of his costume collection at the Museo Jumex in Mexico. It was another tribute to his figure , similar to the award that Telva magazine awarded him in September 2018 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, where another exhibition was mounted with his best pieces.
Insiders say that this deference to Telva, that of receiving a tribute so talked about by the media on his part, distanced Naty from his trusted leader, Hello!, Where he has worked for so many years. The pink bible was taken as a slight that Naty opened the doors of her dressing room to Telva and since then the appearance of the diva in its pages (and that of her people, such as her family or her friend Nieves Álvarez) is almost nil.
Naty's last major production consisting of ¡Hola !, fashion editorials much more expensive than what Eugenia Silva and Inés Domecq , younger stylists are doing now , is a photo shoot with Pilar Rubio and the Alta figure Summer sewing 2019.
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