The topic was retracted, and the three of them talked about the issue of fabrics, to make a peerless sky-high price dress, of course, the fabric is very important.

However, Alexander Wang and VERA Wang are both big-name designers when it comes to this question, and of course they know very well what kind of fabric is the best and most expensive.

The first choice is, of course, the fabrics of the Scabal company.

With the credo that "we never think about reducing the cost of raw materials", Scabal is recognized as the best fabric in the world and has the reputation of "the king of fabrics".

Scabal claims to be "the best fabric money can buy", and in recent decades it has almost always been the cause of major technological breakthroughs in fabrics.

Scabal sources only the finest raw materials, the comfort of fine wool, the softness of cashmere, the elegance of silk, worsted weaving, and finally the exclusive "paper press" finishing technology, which always ensures that any fabric is worthy of the title of "Scabal" king of fabrics.

In 1974 they developed 16.5 micron wool technology, which brought the number of fabrics to 100 for the first time, and in 1991, they launched a record number of super150 threads, followed by 180 threads, 200 threads, and now the "Super 250" yarn known as the "Summit", which costs as much as £2,000 a yard!

In addition to leading the industry in thread count, Scabal also likes to add gold and diamond powder to fabrics to make fabrics with special luster, such as goldtreasure 150 thread fabric with 22k gold powder, diamondchip 150 wool and silk fabric 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 Sajiabao are only suitable for men's clothing, that is, the fabric is very crisp, but the color is not bright enough, not elegant enough, and it is not good to look good when used in women's clothing.

And the brand of Fusheng Ruomeng, of course, is a big brand of women's clothing, and the use of Sajiabao's fabric is not so suitable.

In addition, the high couture of Savi Street in Britain generally likes to use the fabrics of Sajiabao, so that although the price of the fabric is very high, it is still not precious enough, and it cannot reach the "peerless" height that Li Qinghuan wants!

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When discussing this issue, all three of them wondered what kind of fabric was rare enough, and it was best to surprise the world with fabric alone.

"Is there that kind, that is, the production is very small, and there is basically no brand on the market to make clothes, of course, it must also be suitable for women's clothing. Li Qinghuan asked.

Wang Weiwei frowned, pondered for a while, and suddenly remembered something, she raised her head, and said excitedly: "I remembered a fabric! This fabric is definitely not used to make clothes!"

Li Qinghuan and Alexander Wang hurriedly asked, "What fabric?!"

"A golden cloth made of golden spider silk!"

Wang Weiwei said proudly, seeing that the two of them were puzzled, and then gave the two of them a science popularization, how precious this fabric is.

In 2004, textile designer Simon Peers fell in love with golden spider silk, he used the record of French missionaries in Madagascar in the 19th century to produce fabrics from spider silk, reproduced a spider silk extraction machine, and cooperated with entrepreneur Nicholas Godley to form a team to spend five years to collect 1.2 million spider silk and weave it into a beautiful gold spider silk shawl, which cost a total of 300,000 pounds, which was exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History and immediately caused heated discussions.

To weave the golden fabric, 70 workers spent four years collecting more than 1 million golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while a dozen other workers carefully extracted about 80 feet (24.4 meters) of spider silk from each spider and spun it into the 11-foot×4-foot textile. It is also the only piece of textile in the world that has been woven from natural spider silk so far.

Simon Pearce, the textile expert in charge of the project, said, "Spider silk has very good elasticity and its tensile strength can even be compared to 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 medical and industrial fields, but so far no one has been able to replicate 100% of the properties of natural spider silk. ”

Simon Pierce came up with the idea of making spider silk textiles after hearing the story of a French missionary named Jacob Paul. Between 1880 and 1890, the French missionary Jacob Paul built a small hand-cranked machine in Madagascar that could extract spider silk from 24 spiders without harming them.

But to make larger textiles, Peirce and his collaborators had to massively expand the production of spider silk. "14,000 spiders produce about one ounce of silk, and the textiles we make require about 2.6 pounds of silk, which is a staggering number," Goldley said. ”

Researchers have always been very interested in the unique properties of spider silk. The tensile strength of spider silk is even stronger than that of steel and Kevlar fiber, and the elasticity of spider silk is so good that it can be stretched by 40% without breaking. However, spider silk is difficult to produce on a large scale, because when spiders live together in large numbers, they tend to bite off the heads of their companions.

To get the amount of spider silk they needed, Pierce and his partners hired dozens of workers who specialized in collecting spider workers and extracting them from machines. "We had to find workers who were willing to work with spiders, because spiders bite," Godley said. ”

Toward completion of the project, Godley and Pierce had extracted more than 1 million spiders from their silk.

The spiders they chose were mainly the golden orb spider that grows in Madagascar, which is known for its golden silk.

But these spiders only produce silk during the rainy season, so workers only collect them between October and June. Another 12 workers use hand-cranked machines to extract spider silk from spiders and spin them into thread.

Once the silk from the spider's body has been extracted, workers release it back into the wild. After about a week, the spiders are able to produce silk again, so workers can catch it back and extract it, so some spiders are reused multiple times.

Of course, the spider silk textile, which took four years to make, seems impractical to scientists who study the properties of spider silk. But when people are confronted with this beautiful work of art made from spider silk extracted from 1 million spiders, they still seem to enjoy it.

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

As for the price of this fabric, no one knows at the moment, because it has never been sold to the public, and the only two pieces of fabric are on display in museums.

But it is conceivable that when it comes to spider silk, raising such a large team also has to make money, as long as you are willing to pay for it, you should be able to buy it.

After listening to Wang Weiwei's introduction, Li Qinghuan's eyes lit up, this is definitely the best fabric!

Rare, precious, and yet unavailable clothes made of this fabric.

Once this fabric is used in Fusheng Ruomeng to make a gorgeous costume, it will naturally have topicality and dissemination.

At that time, what eye-catching headlines such as "the most expensive clothes in the world", "the most beautiful natural fabric in the world", and "such beautiful body armor" have not been overwhelmingly reported?

"Weiwei, you give me the information of that team, and I will personally go out to handle the fabric matter!" Li Qinghuan said decisively.

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

Yes, the truly precious fabrics are sold by weight.

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

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