Ever wonder how Lady Gaga’s heelless shoes are made? Susie Bubble has the answer!

We can’t tell you how people walk in Noritaka Tatehana heelless shoes, but we can show you how they’re made.  Whereas the engineering secrets behind the staggeringly high platforms remain, well, a secret, we can tell you that the shoes are made like any other piece of high-end footwear—with leather, cobbler’s tools and lots and lots of glue.

Tatehana’s shoes, which are frequently spotted on mega-celebrities like Lady Gaga (who is rumoured to own 14 pairs), don’t come cheap.  If you’d like to own a custom pair of these gravity-defying works of art, you can expect to shell out more than $10,000 and wait five months (or more, depending on how many orders Tatehana has to fill).  We did the math, and if rumours are true, that means Gaga’s Tatehana collection is easily worth $140,000. Would be nice.