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STYLE | report 21<br />
PICTURE PERFECT?<br />
In 2017, despite serious doubts regarding its authenticity,<br />
Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sold for $662 million.<br />
The most expensive painting ever sold was once part<br />
of King Charles I’s royal collection and has had an<br />
exceptionally colourful existence. Many art aficionados<br />
feared this had come to an end when the painting<br />
disappeared for an uncomfortable 150 years. Its<br />
reemergence led to the record auction price, reportedly<br />
a result of an accidental bidding war between two Arab<br />
princes – which made for a rather heated auction at<br />
Christie’s, New York. The selling price appears even<br />
more astounding upon learning that during the 1950s<br />
Salvator Mundi was sold for just $87.<br />
WELL HEELED<br />
UK designer Debbie Wingham leads the way in luxury footwear<br />
with a pair of $21-million high heels.<br />
An amateur Wingham is not, when it comes to working to<br />
the most opulent of customer briefs; having risen to fame for<br />
creating a dress that once broke records for being the most<br />
expensive ever sold (a diamond-covered gown no less). Then,<br />
came the shoes.<br />
Commissioned to mark a client’s special birthday, the<br />
perfectly symmetrical pair are not only encrusted with flawless<br />
white diamonds set in platinum, but feature a solid gold zip and<br />
24-carat-gold thread, of course. These staggeringly high heels<br />
naturally come with a staggeringly high price tag. If the shoe fits!
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