Roger Vivier shoes have a specific curved heel

"When we"re talking about shoes at $14,000, it"s the materials," says Michael Fink, senior fashion director at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. "Leather and the patte and type of wood they"re using, the jewels, are the beads hand done, how rare are the feathers because a lot of mint green pumps with feathers are using feathers that can"t be gathered anymore, from the archives of the couture feather houses. "Roger Vivier shoes have a specific curved heel, and the way it is attached to the footbed is very mechanical and difficult, so you"re paying for engineering, too," Fink says.
 Randall has seen firsthand how using the priciest materials can drive up the cost of a shoe. "Most beautifully made shoes are from Italy. The master craftspeople are there, and Italian leather is the best leather in the world."Loeffler Randall"s most expensive pair of shoes this season, high heels online made of embossed anaconda leather, were hand cut scale by scale (embossed anaconda is actually cow hide made to look like anaconda). But even at nearly $800, these boots didn"t manage to make our list of the most expensive women"s shoes. Articles from: http://www.ushoes2014.com/pumps-beige-pumps-c-43_121.html