Legend has it that a Pashmina shawl that travelled from Kashmir to Iran reached the hands of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt. He gifted this to his wife Empress Josephine, who initially rejected it and then took a great liking to this delicate warm fabric that she soon owned over 400 pashmina shawls at a cost of over 20000 gold francs. The Pashmina Shawl appeared in a French fashion magazine in 1790s and was by now a fashion icon in Paris and soon to be the prized possession of the ladies of the high society in Europe. Kings, adventurers, explorers all had to ensure that on retu Read More..