Vicuna

The World's Most Expensive Suit To Be Delivered Today

Designer Alexander Amosu is most famous for his diamond-covered phones but he is also behind the world's most expensive suit. The £70,000 suit took more than 80 hours to create. It will be delivered to a private buyer who has not been named at a party in central London today.

The suit is made from material that includes vicuna and qiviuk, the world's most expensive wool, gathered from the Arctic muskox blended with pashmina to create a cloth known as Vanquish II. This is the same fabric used in Brioni's $43,000 suit. Amosu's suit includes nine 18-carat gold and pave-set diamond buttons. The designer tells the Telegraph, "buying an Alexander Amosu suit is the ultimate in luxury."

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$50,000 Suits Cut From World's Most Expensive Cloth

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Holland & Sherry, the world famous fabric weaver and cloth merchant founded in Scotland in 1836, is offering an extremely limited edition range of bespoke suits cut from the world's most luxurious and expensive cloth. The firm, which has premises on Savile Row, has woven the world's first 100 per cent worsted spun Vicuna fabric, the most expensive in the world at over $4,000 per yard. The material (above) comes from the wool of the elusive wild Vicuna, a relative of the llama that lives high in the Andes mountains of Peru and Bolivia.

The Vicuna can only be shorn every three years and yields an extremely small amount of fine wool. It took Holland & Sherry five years to gather enough of the exclusive yarn, and another year and a half to develop the unique cloth, which is much finer than cashmere. There is only enough of the precious fabric to make 18 suits, each of which will cost about $50,000. Customers will have only three colors to choose from – black, midnight and natural. The King of Morocco is among the first to place an order for one of the gorgeous garments.

Tags: Bespoke, Cashmere, Fabric, Holland Sherry, HollandSherry, Peru, Savile Row, SavileRow, Scotland, Suit, Vicuna

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