Holland & Sherry Offers Suits Cut From World’s Costliest Cloth
By Affluent Page Editor • • Category: Fashion, News & Noteworthy
Scotland-based fabric weaver and cloth merchant Holland & Sherry supplies so many bespoke suit makers it maintains premises on Savile Row. Now the storied firm, founded in 1836, has woven the world’s first 100 per cent worsted spun Vicuna fabric, the most luxurious and expensive in the world at over $4,000 per yard. It took H&S five years to gather enough of the special yarn, and another year and a half to develop the unique cloth. The material comes from the wool of the Vicuna llama which inhabits the high alpine reaches of the Andes. A rare and extremely shy animal, the Vicuna only produces tiny amounts of very fine wool and can only be shorn every three years.
Holland & Sherry have woven enough material to make just 18 suits from the fabric, each of which will cost about $50,000. Customers will have a selection of only three colors to choose from – black, midnight and natural. The King of Morocco is among the first to place an order for a Vicuna suit. “There are other Vicuna fabrics on the market, but this is the world’s first 100 per cent worsted spun Vicuna fabric,” notes H&S’ Ross Greenshields. “We went to the next level. If you picture feeling cashmere – and cashmere feels fantastic – this feels finer. It is unique, it is original, it is exclusive and it is the most expensive cloth in the world.”
