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Today’s entry into Fantasy Shoes is designer shoes guru Stuart Weitzman’s $2,000,000 Cinderella Slippers! For anybody unfamiliar with the story of Cinderella, the relevant part is that Cinderella’s fairy godmother created some delicate glass slippers for her to wear to a ball.

Although Weitzman’s slippers aren’t made of glass, they are set with 595 platinum-set Kwiat diamonds, including one 5-carat amaretto diamond worth a million dollars. Literally. They were worn by Oscar nominee Alison Krauss, of whom Weitzman’s daughters were fans. She wore them at the 2004 Oscars, prior to which she declared that she wanted her friends and family to be able to say “She sang in tune and didn’t forget the words. And she didn’t fall off them shoes.”

Whether she sang in tune isn’t for me to say, but what is for sure is that if “them shoes” are an accurate reflection of Cinderella’s slippers, it solves the mystery behind why the prince in Cinderella decided to choose his bride based on her shoe. He must have thought she was loaded!