I Remember A Song,

by Paul Simon,

Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes, above, apparently the super rich can now go one better, and wear diamonds in the folds of their clothes, actually in the very fabric of the material the suit is made from as it happens, Belgian textile company Scabal changed the luxury fabric industry forever by introducing Diamond Chip, an exclusive fabric infused with microscopic diamond fragments. The process of creating this intriguing fabric remains a closely-guarded secret, but what is abundantly clear is that the world’s super-rich were so impressed by Diamond chip that luxury fabric manufacturers the world over started incorporating expensive materials like 24K gold, platinum or precious stones into their fabrics, 

 photograph Scabal, “Just like some men want their top-of-the-range car to be customized, so we all have clients who ask us to show them only the most expensive cloths,” one central London tailor told Financial Times in 2011. And that’s where fabrics like Scabal’s Diamond Chip come in, to create Diamond Chip, the Belgian company, which produces most of its fabrics at its mill in Huddersfield, England, blends Super 150s merino wool with silk and powdered diamonds, through a process that has remained secret for almost two decades. The end result is a luxurious fabric that is not only wearable but quite comfortable, and that shimmers discreetly,

back in 2011, FT reported that Scabal makes several varieties of Diamond Chip, and that a bespoke two-piece suit made of this special material started at around £7,000 ($8,600), twice as much as one made of traditional high-quality merino wool, that was in 2011,today?who knows!, but online luxury fabric retailer Tissura sells one meter of Diamond Chip by Scabal for $735, and how many meters for a suit? have a look here for the full answer,

Diamond Chip remains the most exclusive jacketing fabric for truly luxurious suits, but to keep things fresh Scabal has adapted its secret process to create fabrics infused with a variety of other precious materials, such as lapis lazuli, gold or platinum, “It is quite a small number of clients who want this type of cloth. I have a couple in Saudi Arabia and two more in New York,” one Saville Row tailor told FT. “They are the sort of people who wear a £100,000 watch. There is a psychological thing about wanting to wear the most expensive example of something.” So there you have it, diamonds in the fabric of his suit, I wonder of someone could make a song about that!