Okay, I know that I have a penchant for gorgeous things, but I think I've been outdone by the people at
Dormeuil. I've never seen more beautiful cloth! In my days of doing custom clothing for Tommy Hilfiger, anytime I had a really special project for a celebrity or VIP I would tootle around the corner to Madison Avenue and see my friend Luke Mays at Dormeuil. Need a super 120's wool with a gold metallic pinstripe? No problem. Need a hot pink vicuña suiting? Done. Now that I'm doing my own line of luxury Home Textiles, I'm able to use some of their fabrics again, like my
Holland Park pillow. So chic!
These guys know luxury, and even do special limited edition runs of fabric that can cost up to $1,000 a yard (it takes about 4yds to make a suit). This is how you know that you are in the presence of a real enthusiast - when someone weaves only enough of a fabric to make a handful of suits. Talk about luxury! Recently they announced a new cloth made from a blend of three noble fabrics: Vicuña from the Andes, Pashmina from Ladakh and Qiviuk from Alaska (wool of an arctic ox). The name for this concoction? Appropriately:
Vanquish.
