I'm pretty sure that ridiculously expensive jeans weren't always around. There was once a time when everyone was okay with wearing the same Levi's as everyone else and no one really cared about being different or more extravagant. My brother recently came home with two new pairs of jeans and my mother flipped out when he told her that he paid a couple hundred for both of them and that they were on sale.
Now it's almost normal for someone to go into Bloomie's or Nordstrom's and drop $180.00 on one pair of jeans.
But how about jeans that cost thousands? Okay, I must admit I almost fell victim to buying a pair of Evisu jeans that cost $1,500 back when I was a sophomore in high school and Evisu was all the rage. The jeans had a complete mural on the back that was done by hand [or so they say] and trust me, I would have made sure that I never sat down. Anyway, thank God my friends knocked some sense into me!
Guinness World Records cites the Gucci "Genius Jeans" as the most expensive jeans in the world. A normal pair of Gucci jeans that had been distressed, ripped and covered with African beads, when they debuted in October 1998 in Milan, were priced at an astonishing $3,134. If you think that sounds like a lot of money, today, there are jeans for more than double that amount.
Such as jeans from Escada's couture line. With no price cap in mind, couture Escada jeans start at $7,500 and then soar to the moon . So far, the most expensive pair they have made cost $10,000 and were studded from top to bottom with Swarovski crystals.
Key Closet also has a pair of $10,000 jeans that include white-gold buttons and swarovski crystals as a few of its embellishments [pictured above].
Click here for a slideshow of the world's most expensive jeans!
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