"Everything is very substantial, so you really make a statement when you wear a piece, " explains Hollywood stylist Petra Flannery, who is as likely to finish off one of her A-list young actors' outfits with a Pomellato flourish as she is to wear her own weighty gold band she bought in Rome in her early twenties.
There they point out that prices are the language of the economy, and stable money made stable by gold is what has allowed the wealth-enhancing act that is trade to flourish like never before.