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Luxury tailor stirs local apparel market with Sh187,000 silk shirts

Brian Kisimba. He dresses Kenya's affluent and specialises in luxury apparel. [File, Standard]

Silk, a delicate yet strong organic fabric, boasts of a rich history as an apparel of choice for royalty and the world's wealthiest.

A symbol of luxury and excess in ancient times, it gave China the 'Silk Road'- a vast network of trade routes spanning over 6,400kms connecting the country to the West.

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