PHOTOS: World’s most EXPENSIVE DRESS that costs over 400 million SHILLINGs

The saying that diamonds are forever can best be put to test by this dress – the world’s most expensive!

The dazzling dress, which received mixed reviews from onlookers at Ukraine Fashion Show, is encrusted with 50 two carat black diamonds and weighs a
staggering 29lbs (13kg).
With its diamond encrusts, will the dress ever fade or will it keep dazzling for eternity?

The gown is one of seven diamond-covered dresses created by British designer Debbie Wingham’s collection – but with its hefty £3.5m price tag, it is her most extravagant to date.

The dress boasts 25 two carat black diamonds adorning the peplum and a further 25 two carat black diamonds on the shoulder shrug, while more diamonds frame the detachable shoulder line.


On the bustier part of the handmade dress – which is the result of six months’ extensive work – is a centrepiece of five carats of black diamonds.

The rest of the embellishment is fine beading and delicate white diamonds set in white gold with a very fine chainmail detail to add  more individuality, setting the embellishment on this gown apart from any other world’s most expensive gowns,’ says its creator on her website.

The dress was launched officially at the Billionaires’ Club in Monte Carlo before going on a tour that ended at Ukraine Fashion Week.

Debbie Wingham, a self-taught designer whose mother was a seamstress, started her trading at Greenwich market at the age of 18 before opening her first boutique in Hoxton.

A year later she crossed the capital, opening a showroom on the Kings Road.

In 2005, one of her gowns was worn to the BAFTAs, prompting a renowned fashion columnist to write: ‘the best dress at this year’s BAFTAs was a dress designed by an unknown designer, but watch this space’.

Seven years later, her clientele has increased as her designs have been worn by a long list of celebrities including Kate Winslet, Hilary Swank, Amy Smart, Catherine Jenkins, Rebecca Ferguson, and real life burlesque star-Dita Von Teese.