Indian businessman Datta Phuge’s world’s most expensive shirt made of 22-karat gold costs $235,000
Indian millionaire Datta Phuge, a 42-year-old moneylender from the Pimpri-Chinchwad city of Pune for whom gold is the ultimate passion, commissioned the world’s most expensive shirt which is regarded to be an embellishment to his reputation as the ‘Gold Man of Pimpri’. Highly elated to wear his shiny dream shirt, Mr. Datta Phuge who inherited a fair amount of gold and wants to leave behind a sufficient amount for the next-generation, spent a whopping $235,000 on this custom-made shirt as an investment which will keep appreciating. Crafted out of 3.5kg of 22-carat solid gold, this bling shirt created by Pune-based Ranka Jewelers boasts of 14,000 gold flowerings that have been interwoven with 100,000 spangles sewn into a base of finest white velvet, along with 6 Swarovski Crystal buttons. Notably, 15 goldsmiths labored over 15 days at the rate of 18-hours a day to create this opulent shirt with an armor-like appearance.
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| Gold Man of Pimpri Datta Phuge |
Datta Phuge is now the proud owner of a golden shirt worth 12.7 million rupees ($226,000), made up of 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold and put together by 15 craftsmen over 16 days."Gold has always been my passion since a young age. I've always worn gold as jewellery in the form of bracelets, rings, chains," he told AFP.The 42-year-old, who lives in the Pune district of western Maharashtra state, hatched the plan late last year with a local jeweller friend.
