The Most Expensive And Hot Dresses In The World

For those who think nothing of spending in excess of £150,000 pounds for a gown, here are the most expensive, and fabulous, dresses in the world, from Couture Fashion Week 2016.

- Anna Murphy

It is not so much that couture is another world, more that it’s on another planet. If you were one of the women shopping at the shows in Paris last week, you aren’t someone who has to ask the price. If you did, however, you would be told that the bill starts at about £30,000 for the simplest of day dresses. An evening dress—which has often taken thousands of hours to make—would set you back £150,000 or more.

Pictured here are some of the most fabulous, and expensive, frocks in the world. Hot off the couture runway, they may already be winging their way somewhere in the world to a walk-in wardrobe the size of my flat. Or the ateliers of Paris may, as you read this, be busy remaking a particular dress in a client’s size or with a bespoke design tweak here or there. (Some brands are more flexible than others. One reason that Armani Privé is so popular among the Chinese super-rich, an insider told me, is because it is particularly non-tweak-averse)