One glance tells us these are no ordinary
fashions, but how could they be worth
thousands of dollars?
A closer look explains their value.
Designer Colleen Galdino from Scottsdale,
Arizona, calls this four piece ensemble
in Palm Green Ultrasuede, an
evening bicycle suit with more
for evening than bicycling, one would
hope.
Cigaret. Slim pants are worn with a short
curved blazer.
But here is the explanation for its
twelve thousand dollar price tag,
a necktie accented with a nine
carat Colombian emeralds surrounded
with four carats of flawless diamonds.
This three piece suit is fashioned from
Bell, seem even more luxurious
than Ultrasuede and about 20 percent more
costly.
It's softer and more droppable than
Ultrasuede and at present is available
to only a few designers,
the buttons to thirty five
carat precious Amethyst said
in 14 karat gold run
the price up to sixty five hundred
dollars.
The four thousand dollar price on this
long skirt, vest and blouse is due to
its elaborate beadwork, and
Indian artists spent one hundred hours
beating the jacket with sterling silver
and turquoise.
The braided belt is also entwined with
sterling silver.
Telling Galdino says, the most expensive
fashion she has created work for a member
of a royal family in the Mideast.
The young woman purchased seven jewel
adorned garments for one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
But Miss Gardino numbers a few Texas
women among her clients.
Also, the designer says
she got her inspirations from history.
Catherine the Great had one thousand
diamonds embroidered into one of her
court dresses.
Marie Antoinette had genuine stones.
Napoleon warm, magnificent
diamond in his hat.
Yes, it has been done before, but not in
contemporary fashion.
Never.
While Colleen Galdino Galdino creations
can be bought in retail stores without
the jewels, she feels her jewel fashions
compare with other riches people collect,
she says, were it not for wealthy people
who surrounded themselves with jewels,
precious metals, glass, paintings and
sculpture, there would be no museums
today.
That may be rational thinking on the
Schaldemose part, but selling that
idea to some husbands may be another
matter.
Bobbie Wygant, The Texas News.