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Every year, designer Stuart Weitzman makes poor people everywhere seethe with rage by designing an obscenely expensive pair of shoes to be worn by some lucky not-so-famous actress at the Oscars.

This year, Weitzman apparently decided to take this upper-class inside joke to the next level, unveiling a pair of shoes that could only be described as “Seriously? You dropped a million bucks on those?”

Gossip blog Mollygood dishes the details:

The ‘Retro Rose’ shoe features two Kwiat diamond roses, fixed to 1940’s-style beige metallic T-strap high heels. More than 1,800 Kwiat diamonds weighing 100 carats were used to make the roses and 400 of them have been incorporated into the design of the shoe, which is worth over $1 million.

Kind of obscene, no? What must Weitzman have been drinking thinking as he cobbled these together? “Oh, shit, the writer’s strike is over? I guess I need to put together those goddamned shoes for the Oscars, asap. Well, ok, I’ll take these last-season $35 gold shoes from Payless, and uhm…diamonds! Yes, that’ll do it. Lots and lots of diamonds…where’s my glue gun?”

Well, he got one thing right, they do look ‘retro.’ The Retro Rose sounds like a pin-up girl. I guess that’s why Weitzman decided to foist his tacky pity shoes on Juno writer and former stripper Diablo Cody – apparently without even asking her.

I guess she decided that she didn’t want his diamond-encrusted pity. On Oscar night, the fug-bling wonders were nowhere to be seen, and Ms. Cody was sporting a sensible pair of gold flats. You go girl. Stick it to the man.