CHAPTER TEN
Running Madalena’s House of Fashion in Barcelona takes all the time and effort Madalena can expend. Her runway shows are the epitome of haute couture: glamorous, flamboyant, cheeky, outrageously colorful. Employing her savvy instincts, she was one of the first designers to create sexy and trendy clothing - from lingerie to evening dress and everything in between - for the full-figured woman. This expanded her clientele enormously, as women literally hungered for food and fashion that didn’t require sylphlike figures and closet bulimia.
With a high society clientele, her business is lucrative enough to afford her a very comfortable lifestyle, and influence in all the right places. She is trusted with all their dirty little secrets and dangerous liaisons. In turn, when she d
