THIEF CLAIMS LUPITA’S PEARL DRESS WAS A FAKE

Dresses have been a hot topic online this week. Many have spent hours checking on a colour of a dress while the rest were treated to a rather strange story about a stolen gown valued at$150,000.

 

The custom made Calvin Klein gown won by Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o-a cascade of 6,000 pearls affixed to silklame-was reported stolen out of her hotel room when she had stepped out.

One day after it went missing according to The NewYork Times, an irate tipster called the celebrity gossip website TMZ, confessed to being the thief and said where the gown could be found. He said he had left it crumpled in a garment bag under a sink at the London Hotel in West Hollywood, where Ms. Nyong’o had stayed, after he and a group of accomplices had plucked off two pearls and taken them to the Los Angeles garment district, where they were told that the pearls were not real. The caller was telling TMZ this, entire he said, because he wanted the world to know that Hollywood was “fake.”

So far Ms. Nyong’o, her stylist, and the designer, Francisco Costa, the creative director of women’s wear at Calvin Klein Collection, have not publicly addressed the thief’s claim that the gown was covered in imitation pearls. Representatives for Calvin Klein did not respond to inquiries.

In a statement, Nyong'o told Women's Wear Daily, "I'm happy that it has been potentially recovered. It's a timeless and priceless piece of art."
"Once it's returned to us, we will be able to have the dress restored and archived, as it now represents an important moment for the brand," added the dress' creator, Francisco Costa, in his own statement to WWD.