That Dress Cost HOW MUCH? The 10 Most Expensive Dresses of All Time

Marilyn Monroe created one of the most iconic images ever when she stepped on a subway vent. The infamous ‘subway dress’ was born as the actress attended the 1955 premiere of The Seven Year Itch. You may have to work for more than seven years straight in order to afford the dress that was auctioned for five million dollars in 2011… pardon me whilst I rub my eyes!

Come again? Surely Nicole couldn’t enjoy the Oscars wearing something THAT pricey? Clearly someone wasn’t allowed near the canapés that night, let alone allowed a Jaeger Bomb! However the poor lamb did get to wear one of John Galliano’s most iconic Dior red carpet dresses at the 1997 Academy Awards.

It’s no great surprise one of the most iconic black dresses ever made is worth more than your life savings. The dress Givenchy designed for Audrey Hepburn to wear in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was sold for just shy of one million dollars at Christie’s in New York.

Not aware of this dress? Well when Mary Joe Connolly, a photographer, modeled a pearl wedding dress worth one hundred thousand dollars at the time, it caused quite the stir in the 1950s media. Now worth five hundred thousand dollars, the dress was constructed with 100,000 cultured pearls. Wowza.

It comes to something when your wedding dress is worth more than a future Queen’s! In one of the most fabulous celebrity weddings of recent times Amal married the eternal bachelor, George Clooney in a custom made Oscar de la Renta wedding dress. The dress made with French lace and hand-embroidered pearls was one of the last commissions the designer worked on before his death.

The wedding dress Sarah Burton designed for the wedding of the decade marked a new era for the house of Alexander McQueen, with her more feminine touch to fashion. Kate Middleton’s wedding dress is probably worth more than this original price tag, however, as some fairytale moments are priceless.

Anything Princess Diana touched turned to gold and her dresses were no different. Creating one of the most iconic moments of the 1980s, the Princess of Wales danced with John Travolta at President Reagan’s White House Dinner in 1985. For the occasion the Princess slipped into a velvet custom made gown by Victor Edelstein and the dress was later auctioned for £100,000 in 1997 before going on to be auctioned again in 2013 for £240,000. Pocket money, right?

Cate has long been pals with Mr Armani himself so it’s no surprise he reserved one of his grandest gowns for the double Oscar winner for the 2017 Academy Awards. The asymmetric gunmetal gown was embellished entirely with Swarovski crystals, just because.

Wearing a dress made with over 6,000 pearls is always going to be pricey! Lupita wore the gown to the 87th Annual Academy Awards in 2015, the year after she took home the Oscar for the Best Supporting Actress. However, the night quickly turned sour for the actress as the gown was stolen from her hotel room.

Being one of the faces of Dior certainly has it upsides, including getting to borrow a gown worth one hundred thousand dollars. For the 2013 Oscars ceremony Charlize Theron - sporting her iconic cropped do - didn’t settle for just wearing a white couture gown… she added Harry Winston jewels worth £4million. My palms are sweating just thinking about it.