The World's Top 10 Most Expensive Shoes

#9 Slippers worn by an Indian Price

Price: $210,000 AUD

The slippers of Nizam Sikandar Jah an Indian Prince the eighteenth century sparkle with rubies and diamonds.

In 2006 they were stolen from the Bata Shoe Museum in Canada. When recovered a few days it was evident that they had been worn by their 35 year old male, shoe loving abductor!

Stuart Weitzman shoe designer teamed up with jeweller Kwiat to make his dream of diamond stilettos come true . At the 2007 Academy Awards, Anika Noni turned heads wearing “Diamond Dream” on the red carpet.

#7 Ruby Slippers from the "Wizard of Oz"

Price: $870,000 AUD (in 2000)

It is believed that there were seven pairs of "ruby slippers" created for the 1939 movie classic "The Wizard of Oz", the whereabouts of only four pairs are known. The slippers were created from white silk pumps, red glass jewels, bugle beads and glass rhinestones.

#6 Stuart Weitzman "Retro Rose" pumps

Price: $1.3 million AUD

Created by Stuart Weitzman, more than 1,800 Kwait diamonds weighing 100 carats were used to make the roses afixed to these 1940s-style dusty gold high heels.

# 5 Stuart Weitzman “Platinum Guild” Stilettos

Price: $1.4 million AUD

Every year, fashion footwear king Stuart Weitzman picks a new and rising Hollywood star, to wear his latest multi-million dollars shoes to the Oscars. Weitzman's first "Cinderella" was actress Laura Harring who wore these strappy stilettos flaunting 464 round and pear shaped diamonds to the 2002 Awards.

#4 Stuart Weitzman "Ruby Slippers"

Price: $2.1 million AUD

642 oval and round rubies set in pure platimum were used to create Weitzman's "Ruby Slippers", inspired from the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz .

Equal #3 Stuart Weitzman Tanzanite Heels

Price: $2.6 million AUD

Stuart Weitzman teamed up with jeweller Le Vian to painstakingly match and cut 185 carats of museum-quality tanzanite and 28 carats of diamonds.

These sparkling heels were unveiled June 2008 in Las Vegas.

Equal #3 Stuart Weitzman "Cinderella Slippers"

Price: $2.6 million AUD

The “Cinderella Slippers” were worn by singer Alison Krauss (nominated for best song for the film Cold Mountain) at the 2004 Oscars while walking the red carpet and performing onstage.

The one-of-a-kind 4½-inch stiletto sandals are studded with 565 platinum-set Kwiat diamonds (which include 55 carats of clear diamonds and one big 5-carat stone).

# 2 Stuart Weitzman's Rita Hayworth shoes

Price: $3.94 million AUD

The shoes "centerpieces" are earrings laden with rubies, sapphires and diamonds, from the estate of the lates 40's movie siren Rita Hayworth, .

The shoes now belong to Hayworth's daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan.

# 1 Harry Winston's Ruby Slippers

Price: $4 million AUD

While the original ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland were made with sequins, these spectacular slippers designed by Ronald Winston of the House of Harry Winston to mark the classic movie’s fiftieth anniversary, used real rubies.

The slippers include 4,600 rubies totaling 1,350 carats (as well as 50 carats of diamonds) which took two months to make.

Anika Noni wearing Stuart Weitzman "Diamond Dream" stilettos at the 2007 Oscars.