Posted by Peter Brady on Thu 29th May 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Clothes
A few weeks ago I was invited to the unveiling of a particularly special shirt. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend in the end, but Eton, a Swedish family owned luxury shirt specialist celebrated their
80th birthday with the launch of ‘The world’s most expensive tailored shirt’.
Billed as an “ultra glamorous evening shirt” there is no denying it’s beautifully tailored and woven style. Materials were derived from the finest and rarest Egyptian cotton yarn which was hand chosen by Eton’s Creative Director Jan Borghardt. He comments “I have been in this business for my entire professional career, and I handle high-end quality textiles on a daily basis but I have never before felt a fabric like this one.”
The shirts most striking aspect are the seven coloured diamonds that adorn the shirt studs and cufflinks. The five diamond dress stud set consists of multi coloured diamonds and the cufflinks each have one white diamond and all are set in white with black enamel borders.
The shirt’s value is £23,000 ($47,000 approx) and it will commence a world wide tour of Eton’s international stores which includes Milan, LA and Stockholm. The tour lasts for one year and in Spring 2009 it will be auctioned and Eton will donate the proceeds to charity.
Oliver Sweeney the British luxury footwear and accessory specialist have recently announced the launch of an exclusive custom made shoe service.
The service will offer the style savvy consumer the opportunity to create a truly unique shoe. A choice of coloured, or natural exotic materials such as crocodile, ostrich and iguana skin, are available.
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This has to be one of the coolest gadgets about at the moment. It’s a high fashion LCD TV designed for today’s modern woman and resembles an Italian style handbag.
Made out of 100% genuine imported Italian leather it marries design conscious fashion with tech chic.
It has a 9.6” LCD TV and includes a carry strap and a clever cable management facility that tucks away cables for neatness.
It’s an absolute bargain if you need a pressie for the girl who has everything at around £125.
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If you want a luxury couture dress, fit for the red carpet - you don’t necessarily have to splash out thousands of dollars.
One Night Stand, a dress hire establishment based in the UK, stocks more than 500 uber apparel items from top international designers.
Joanna Doniger the proprietor of One Night Stand, works with many celebrities from film, music and TV who can afford to be a little bit adventurous with their outfit choice, without price tag guilt.
Given that much of their stock retails for many thousands of dollars, it can prove really convenient and cost effective to pay $300 for one night’s hire.
At the very least it could save you the hassle of auctioning off all the surplus frocks you only ever wore once…
£30,000 is the price of this rather special lippy, and no it’s not made out of the bodily fluids of a rare whale or anything like that!
It is the creation of a brand founded in 1920 called Guerlain, and has entered the record books as the World’s most expensive lipstick.
Identified as KissKiss, this outer body of the lipstick is custom designed in France and is ornamented with 10g of solid 18-carat yellow gold and 199 diamonds. The prospective buyer of this $62K lip shade can buy this via one-to-one meeting with Olivier Echaudemaison, Guerlain’s artistic director.
The lip color is complemented with its separate lip brush and shielding black suede pouch - in a black lacquered casing. The gold sheath can be tailored with an imprinted name or memo. It is offered in 15 shades handpicked by Olivier himself including six pinks, sic reds and three neutrals.
Come on Posh Spice… get your purse out!
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