To create the most expensive fashion item of its class (and bask in the accompanying publicity), just borrow a bunch of diamonds and slap ’em on. Victoria’s Secret regularly dresses up their undergarments with stones. Stuart Weitzman made diamond shoes, worn by Alison Krauss to the Oscars. And in the news this week there was “the most expensive hat ever made“, valued at $2,700,000 and designed by Louis Mariette. Also making the news, but taking a step back, singer Charlotte Church was planning to wear a Scott Henshall dress woven with diamonds, “the most expensive dress ever made,” to a movie premiere, but then decided against it.