Nati Abascal
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Nati Abascal is a socialite and a former fashion model, whom designer Valentino met in 1968 at a party when she was 25 years old. By then, she had already been working as a model in New York for at least 3 years (in 1965 she was on the cover of prestigious Bazaar magazine) and had a full-time contract with Ford model agency. Valentino brought her to the island of Capri for modeling shoots and, ever since, they've remained close friends.
Abascal was the protagonist of an urban myth, in which a man allegedly crashed his car when he saw her crossing the road in her hot pants and high heels.
Richard Avedon photographed her and her twin sister Ana Maria in Ibiza in the 1960s and, even after having left the fashion world, Norman Parkinson decided to portray her too.
She is known as one of Valentino's Spanish muses, although she's closely connected as well to Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera, among other designers.
She made a 'happening/commercial' for Alka-Seltzer with Salvador Dalí in the late 1960s and had a part in Woody Allen's 1971 "Bananas".
Abascal married Murray Livingston Smith, a Formula One pilot, during her years in the United States. By 1975 they split up. After that, and once she was back in Spain, she married Rafael Medina y Fernandez de Cordova, Duke of Feria, in 1977. They stayed together until 1989. Rafael died on August 9, 2001 after some troublesome last years.[1][2]. She has two sons, Rafael, born on September 25, 1978[3], and Luis, born on 30 August 1980. She still looks absolutely amazing and is, no doubt, the most dashing and well-connected person in the fashion circles in Spain.
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- ^ Rafael Medina, Duque de Feria, Aparecio Muerto en su Casa de Sevilla. iHola!.
- ^ El duque de Feria muere a los 58 años por una posible ingesta de barbitúricos. Elmundo.
- ^ Rafael Medina. Todotele.
