What’s a multi-million dollar bra or a diamond-clad wedding dress when you’re rolling in it? Peanuts really… well at least in the name of fashion. Here are some of the most ludicrously expensive items of clothing ever sold:
Most Expensive Underwear
Price tag: US$15 million
Launched in 2002 at the opening of the Victoria’s Secret store on Broadway, where it was modelled by Brazilian fashion icon Gisele Bundchen, the Red Hot Fantasy lingerie set, priced at a whopping US$15 million, comprises of a brassiere and matching briefs.
Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most extravagant and expensive items of underwear ever created, the Red Hot Fantasy is made of the finest red satin, and covered with an array of hand-cut gemstones. The bra alone sports over 1,300 stones, including 300 carats-worth of glittering Thai rubies surrounded by sprays of diamonds.
Plus, more importantly, it’s designed for maximum cleavage.
Most Expensive Jeans
Price tag: US$60,000
In 2005, a pair of 115-year-old Levi’s - similar to the Nevada jeans pictured – were sold on eBay to a Japanese collector who paid what some spend on a luxury automobile.
Most Expensive Suit
Price tag: US$100,000
London-based designer and entrepreneur Alexander Amosu has found a buyer for his mind-bogglingly pricey $100,000 creation – the most expensive suit in the world.
The one-off creation took 80 hours to complete, at a price of about 14 pounds per stitch. The single-breasted, single-buttoned suit was made from rare materials such as Vicuna wool, which can only be shorn once every three years from the South American camelid, and Qiviuk wool, gathered from the Arctic muskox.
Most Expensive Shirt
Price tag: US$40,000
To celebrate their 80th anniversary, Swedish shirt-making company Eton created the world’s most expensive shirt out of the finest Egyptian cotton.
But the shirt’s wow factor is definitely its diamonds. Both the studs and the cufflinks are encrusted with shimmering diamonds—white diamonds on the cufflinks and coloured diamonds on the studs.
Most Expensive Gown
Price tag: US$12 million
The most expensive wedding dress – and gown – in the world, the Diamond Wedding Gown was designed as a collaboration between Renee Strauss, owner of a highly successful bridal salon in Beverly Hills, and Martin Katz, who deals in rare jewels.
Featuring a staggering 150 carats of diamonds, the dress is valued at a whopping US $12 million.
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