Miguel Palacio: “In the Conde’s house, alcohol and drugs are our daily bread”

Gone are the photocalls in which Miguel Palacio and Alejandra Conde posed like fingernail and flesh, boasting of the great friendship that united them for many years, in addition to being business partners of Corona Luxury SL.

To this day there is nothing left of that, there is no longer any deal between the designer and the businesswoman, so only the judicial means to resolve the complaint that Miguel Palacio himself filed on October 21 against what was “the administrator / partner of the accounts” of the company that both shared with a third person, for alleged mismanagement of these. Some accusations from Palacio that the businesswoman denies.

“I’ve known her for many years,” says the designer, “since she got married, when she was brought in by a client of mine, until today. At the beginning I had a professional relationship, to make her suit in Italy, my concept of her was unbeatable, but the years have passed and we have spent a lot of things together as friends,” he assures LA RAZÓN.

What happened?

“She proposed to me to create a company to make shoes, Victor is the other partner and I run the company, I manage. I came from an uncomfortable family situation, and whatever Alejandra had proposed to me, she would have said yes, I just had gratitude for her in every way; we had a selfless friendship at all times.”

As Palacio recounts, she extended her hand to him at a difficult moment in her life and, although grateful to the businesswoman, it was not an easy path in the world of footwear, in which, among other problems, supposedly “there was no payment renting my room in Elche, where I lived then, not to absolutely anyone who was hired. Only when there was no other remedy and the merchandise had to be taken or as they were being sold … ». Later, the designer went to live in Alejandra’s Sevillian farm, Los Carrizos, where he met his father, Mario Conde, whom he praises repeatedly. Since he assures that during that time they made him feel “one of the family, like a son” at all times.

The designer assures that his intention is to tell his whole truth, in order to put us in context and understand what has happened: “I had nothing at that time, only the option of going back to my sister’s house, where she was living then.”

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Alejandra took a habit of shoes, I proposed it to her and she accepted. I don’t even know how anything has been sold, and to say that about my own work is very hard. I thought that I was never going to do anything or anything interesting again and I had lost what little talent I have had due to age, depression, everything … I questioned myself. The same dynamic of not paying the workshops was continued, the fabrics fortunately did. The test model, the art director, the purchasing manager and all, it was her. I did things for her, for her taste, for her requirements … I actually saw Alejandra very little, our relationship was through WhatsApp or voice messages, we have been partners but physically we have seen little.

What was the trigger for that professional relationship?

I left Aravaca, where he lived, three weeks ago because he kicked me out on the phone. He said, “I want you to leave that house immediately.” I said “it’s over.” For months I already saw that with Alejandra I could not continue, so I was also making a collection of shirts with a dressmaker in Aravaca. I already saw that this was not going anywhere because she has terrible taste and I will never understand myself like that. Besides, because I have a roof and food … I prefer to fix myself in some way and it’s over, I don’t need to have a house with five people on duty to be watching what I see every day, I prefer to be where I am now, which is what simplest in the world, but healthy.

So what was the conflict between you guys?

I already had in mind that this was not going to last three more minutes because it is horrible to be in that environment permanently. There were family situations that for them were normal things, but that does not suit me. In that house, alcohol and drugs are our daily bread. I don’t drink and cocaine is something that can’t scare me anymore, but Alejandra’s house was paid for. They are not aware that this is not right, they have normalized it and for them it is as trustworthy to take drugs, parents and children.

After filing the complaint, has she contacted you?

Nothing, he has me blocked from minute one. I left his house because I was going to accompany Mario Conde Sr. to the airport, I wrote to him on WhatsApp to tell him that I had to pay the dressmaker and then he sent me some messages … He made a scandal on me and on top of that, talking about my family … .and I said «how dare you? it’s over”. I have saved the messages.

For her part, Alejandra Conde asks him, through her lawyers, to stop this attitude that, she says, is undermining her integrity, and reminds her that spreading lies and slander about someone is a crime.

She is a compulsive liar, I have sent her copies of all the complaints that I have sent to the police station and I have had to send them to her because they all blocked me from WhatsApp. They have even spoken with my surroundings, as if I was wrong in the head. There have been several moments of being convinced that I was going crazy, I was making some movies in my head of “everyone against me”, and it is a horrible feeling. Until, fortunately, things have been straightening out and, little by little, I have managed to have several people who help me. They are in another reality and they believe their own lies. They are a clan, they all lie.

What do you think will happen now? What is the next step?

That it enters the procedure and that a judge study it. I’m not in a hurry. I don’t even want my lawyers to talk to yours … If I have defamed you, let him prove it and let the judge decide if I have the right to have my prestige restored and whoever has to rectify it. But let a judge say so, I don’t want anything to be negotiated, there is no price.

Do you rule out signing the peace with which you were your great friend?

I want her to be as far away as possible, I want her to heal, to be treated and to do well, but far away.