3. EMPA Gold Tie
With this $8,500 gold tie we enter the big league of cravats. After ten years of research, the textile experts at Empa in St Gallen were able to create a thread resulting from a mixture of silk and 24-carat gold. The gold tie project proves that state-of-the-art technology can aid fashion progress as well (though it also makes that fashion quite expensive, at least in this case).
