After taking back the topic, the three of them talked about fabrics. To make a superb sky-high-priced dress, fabrics are of course very important.

However, for this issue, alexander    wang and vera    wang are both big-name designers, and of course they are very clear about which fabric is the best and most expensive.

The first choice is of course the fabric from Shijiabao Company.

Scabal, which is creed that "we never consider reducing raw material costs", is recognized as the best fabric in the world and has the reputation of "king of fabrics".

Scabal claims to be "the best fabric that money can buy". In recent decades, it has almost all major technological breakthroughs in fabrics.

Scabal only purchases the best raw materials, the comfort of ultra-fine wool, the softness of cashmere, the elegance of silk, the fine weaving of worsted weaving, and the last unique "paper    press" finishing technology, which can always ensure that any fabric is worthy of the reputation of the king of "scabal" fabrics.

In 1974, they developed the 16.5 micron wool technology, making the number of fabrics exceed 100 for the first time. In 1991, they launched a record-breaking super150 fabric, followed by 180 and 200. Until now, the "summit" "summit" "summit" price is as high as 2,000 pounds per size!

In addition to leading the industry in terms of numbers, Scabal also likes to add gold and diamond powder to fabrics to make fabrics with special luster, such as goldtreasure150 fabrics with 22k gold powder, diamondchip150 fabrics with diamond powder, etc., to make fabrics with special luster.

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But there is a problem, that is, most of the fabrics of Shijiabao are only suitable for men's clothing, which means that the fabric is very crisp, but the colors are not bright enough and elegant enough, so it will not look good when used on women's clothing.

The brand Fusheng Ruomeng is of course a big brand of women's clothing, and it is not so suitable to use Shijiabao's fabric.

Moreover, the haute couture on Savi Street in Britain generally likes to use Shijiabao's fabric. In this way, although the fabric is very expensive, it is still not precious enough, and it cannot reach the "unparalleled" height that Li Qinghuan wants!

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When discussing this issue, the three of them were worried. What fabric is rare enough? It is best to surprise the world by relying solely on fabrics.

"Is there any kind that has very little output and there is basically no brand on the market to make clothes. Of course, it should also be suitable for women's clothing." Li Qinghuan asked.

Wang Weiwei frowned, thought hard for a while, and suddenly remembered something. She raised her head and said excitedly: "I remembered a kind of fabric! No one has ever used this fabric to make clothing!"

Li Qinghuan and alexander    wang quickly asked, "What fabric?!"

"Golden fabric woven from golden spider silk!"

Wang Weiwei said proudly, and when she saw the two of them, she was confused, and then gave them some information about how precious this kind of fabric is.

In 2004, textile designer Simon Peers fell in love with golden spider silk. He referred to the records of French missionaries producing fabrics with spider silk on Madagascar in the 19th century, recreated a machine for extracting spider silk, and cooperated with entrepreneur Nicholas Godley to form a team. He spent five years to collect 1.2 million spider silk to weave into an exquisite golden spider silk shawl, which cost a total of 300,000 pounds. It immediately caused heated discussion after being exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History.

To weave this golden fabric, 70 workers spent four years collecting more than 1 million golden spiders from power poles in Madagascar, while a dozen other workers carefully extracted about 80 feet (about 24.4 meters) of spider silk from each spider and finally woven into this 11-foot x 4-foot textile. This is also the only textile in the world woven from natural spider silk to date.

Simon Pierce, a textile expert in charge of the project, said, "Spider silk has very good elasticity and its tensile strength can even be compared with steel and Kevlar fibers. Many scientific research institutions around the world are trying to replicate the tensile properties of spider silk in order to apply it to fields such as medicine and industry, but so far no one has been able to replicate the properties of natural spider silk 100%.

Simon Pierce only developed the idea of ​​making spider silk textiles after hearing the story of a French missionary named Jacob Paul. From 1880 to 1890, French missionary Jacob Paul once built a small hand-crank machine in Madagascar, which could extract spider silk from 24 spiders without harming spiders.

But to make larger textiles, Pierce and his collaborators had to expand their production of spider silk on a large scale. Goldley said, "The 14,000 spiders produce only about 1 ounce of spider silk, while the textiles we make require about 2.6 pounds of spider silk, which is a very amazing number."

Researchers have always been very interested in the unique properties of spider silk. The tensile strength of spider silk is even stronger than steel and Kevlar fibers, and spider silk has good elasticity, and its length can be lengthened by 40% and still continue to crack. However, spider silk is difficult to produce on a large scale, because when spiders live together in large quantities, they often bite off their companions' heads.

To get the amount of spider silk needed, Pierce and his partners hired dozens of workers who specialize in collecting spider workers and extracting spider silk from machines. Godley said, "We have to find workers who are willing to work with spiders because they can bite people."

As the entire project was close to completion, the number of spiders extracted by Goldley and Pierce exceeded 1 million.

The spiders they chose were mainly golden orbs that grew in Madagascar, which are famous for their golden spider silk.

But these spiders only produce silk during the rainy season, so workers only collect it between October and June of the following year. Another 12 workers used hand-rocking machines to extract the spider silk from the spider and spin it into thread.

Once the spider silk is extracted, the workers will put it back into the wild. After about a week, the spider can re-produce silk, so the workers will catch it back and extract the spider silk, so some spiders will be reused many times.

Of course, the silk textile that took four years to make seems unrealistic to scientists who study the properties of spider silk. However, when people face this beautiful work of art made from spider silk extracted from 1 million spiders, they still feel very enjoyable.

This fabric has a beautiful and dazzling luster like gold, and is also gentle and elegant, with strong toughness. It can be said that it is the best fabric for making women's clothing.

As for the price of this fabric, no one knows the price, because it has never been sold publicly, and the only two pieces of fabric are placed in the museum for exhibition.

But it is conceivable that when it comes to spider silk, it is necessary to make money by keeping such a large team. As long as you are willing to pay, you should be able to buy it.

After listening to Wang Weiwei's introduction, Li Qinghuan's eyes glowed, which is definitely the best fabric!

Rare, precious, and has never used this fabric.

Once Fu Shengruomeng uses this fabric and makes a gorgeous costume, it will naturally be topical and disseminated.

At that time, weren’t the eye-catching titles such as “the most expensive clothing in the world”, “the most beautiful natural fabric in the world”, “such a beautiful body armor” and other overwhelming reports?

"Vivi, give me the information of that team. I will do my best to get the fabric done!" Li Qinghuan said decisively.

If you want to buy enough to make a dress, you will expect to need one to two pounds of fabric.

Yes, really precious fabrics are sold by weight.

It is possible that its price is more expensive than gold of the same weight...
Chapter completed!