Singer Gets A Lift From $2 Million Diamond Shoes At Oscars

She may be a country singer but Alison Krauss had plenty of soul at the 76th Academy Awards when she sang Oscar-nominated songs 'Scarlet Tide' and 'You Will Be My Ain True Love' from the movie 'Cold Mountain' wearing a $2 million pair of diamond-adorned shoes created by designer Stuart Weitzman.

 

The stiletto sandal on a 4 1/2-inch invisible heel is covered with more than 500 dazzling diamonds set in platinum giving the illusion that there is no shoe, just diamonds twinkling on the foot.

Nestled among the clear classic diamonds is an extraordinarily rare colored diamond that is amaretto in color and weighs approximately 5 carats, which was specially cut and polished for the shoes.

With the rare colored diamond valued at well over $1 million and the shoes adorned with an additional 55 carats of clear diamonds, the shoes are likely to sell for $2 million or more.

Lowell Kwiat, of Kwiat Diamonds, which provided the gems for the special shoes, said his family’s firm had never seen a diamond of the color of the amaretto diamond in nearly 100 years of making fine jewelry. “I myself have seen more than a million diamonds, but nothing that looks like this,” Kwiat said.