These Shoes Cost 17 Millions of Dollars

More than shinning, more than expensive ...exorbitant shoes? One pair of shoes made of leather, silk, gold and diamond ...the fatal mix for a out of the range price: 17 million dollars!

The shoes are sold in a store in Dubai and detains, of course, the record in terms of price. It can be a Dubai marketing tool? Well, figuring the number of rich people on the territory , it can be perfectly right! 

236 Diamonds for a Pair of Shoes

The pair of stilletos are in store in Burj-al-Arab since last week and it stirrs up all the spirits ever since. Why is so expensive? How does it look like? Well , like gold and diamonds alltogether! Designed in Italy, the soes are composed of 236 diamonds as well as two flawless diamonds of 15 carats each. 

Dubai, The City of Billionaires

"Dubai is a city of millionaires and billionaires.There is a potential market throughout the Gulf region and (especially) Saudi Arabia" for this type of products, told AFP Hemant Karamchandani, the jeweler behind this creation. (AFP)