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Emilia Garcia Elizondo opened her grandfather's house in Mexico to exhibit some of the more than 400 garments and accessories that will be auctioned next November.The auction is called "The García Márquez cabinet" and everything that is collected will be for Fisanim.This is a foundation that supports indigenous children in southern Mexico, and its director is the Mexican actress ofelia Medina, friend of the writer who died in 2014.

"I did not know my grandparents in the way I know them now with everything I have seen and with everything that has come out of their cabinets," said Emilia García Elizondo to AFP.She is one of the granddaughters of the Colombian Nobel, is 31 years old and director of the newly opened house of Literature Gabriel García Márquez.This is a cultural center that will work in the residence of Mexico City, where the writer and wife of his Mercedes Barcha passed his last years.

The selection of the more than 400 garments and accessories that go to auction, Emilia itself chose them.As she said, for her it was "process with myself" and with the memory of the grandfather and grandmother of her.“Many of Gabo's costumes - as popularly known, - they were custom -made, many have their name on the label.It was very nice to see how he had favorite favorite tailors and designers, "said García Elizondo." We also found clothes that had small vestiges of her life as a writer. A bag has a marker in her pocket, which she used to sign her books, and another oneInk stain. We wanted to leave those memories. "

Tweed's bags, "a permanent element of Gabo's style," says his granddaughter Emilia, will also be in the collection.There are some pieces that will only be exhibited but will not enter auction.Such was the case of the dress that Mercedes Barcha took in 1982, on the occasion of the ceremony in which Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature."My grandparents were always extremely generous and we thought it was important that, although they are no longer here, that generosity will continue to reach people," said Emilia García Elizondo, being consulted on what she moved to organize this auction.