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!
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