Mad silkman

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„What are you reading?“
„A book about a visionary for whom textile was an addiction.“

The story of a Prague native who built a silk empire after leaving Czechoslovakia. His customers included some stars in the sky of fashion, such as Dior, Balenciaga or Yves Saint Laurent. Despite the origins and succes of Zika Ascher and his wife, Lída, this couple is almost unknown in the Czech Republic. Will this book change that?

A story about a merchant with silk who certainly did not have a silky life…