Lupita’s Oscar Gown Gone, a Divisive Dress and R.I.P. Mani Cam

All the week’s fashion news that’s fit to reprint.

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Something came between Lupita and her Calvin

A story the significance of which is best expressed by TMZ’s increasing font size and punctuation overuse, the actress Lupita Nyong’o’s “$150K Pearl Oscar Dress … STOLEN!!!!” The gossip site reported that the custom Calvin Klein Collection piece, covered in 6,000 white Akoya pearls, disappeared from Nyong’o’s London West Hollywood hotel room on Wednesday and cops are studying security footage. And we’re already penning the already-Academy-Award-nominated film, “Gown in Sixty Seconds.”

Stairway from heaven

Following the departure of Victoria’s Secret Angels Karlie Kloss and Doutzen Kroes — the former is headed to NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the latter nabbed a “lucrative opportunity in Europe” — a source told Page Six: “The money isn’t what it used to be. … Older contracts like Alessandra Ambrosio were in the millions, now they’re like $100,000.” And these gals don’t get out of bed to model underwear for less than … a more substantial amount a day!

Tumblr and the amazing technicolor/cream dress

Netizens took sides in an international dispute on Thursday: Is this dress white and gold? Or blue and black? We’ll defer to Chrissy Teigen, who tweeted some choice words and “it’s heinous.”

Abercrombie’s day in Supreme Court

On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts, et al., heard from Samantha Elauf and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), who claim Elauf was refused a sales position in 2008 at Abercrombie & Fitch because of her hijab; however, Abercrombie avers her religion wasn’t taken into account in the hiring process. “Only Antonin Scalia, the most conservative justice on the bench, appeared sympathetic to the store’s argument,” the Guardian mentioned. “Justice Stephen Breyer … joked about the store’s attempt to make everyone look like they had gone to Princeton University.” Breyer, it should be noted, attended Harvard Law School and graduated with a degree in Ivy-League zingers.

Tom Ford’s lead

At his L.A. show, the designer and filmmaker told Yahoo Style’s editor-in-chief, Joe Zee, that his next movie might star someone seated in his front row. So, it could be: Julianne Moore, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Adams, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Anjelica Huston, Sofia Vergara, Elizabeth Olsen, Beyoncé, Jared Leto or Anna Wintour. Or not.

A music video, A$AP

The rapper A$AP Ferg used clips recorded to his cellphone during fashion week for his “Dope Walk” music video and he didn’t turn the device on its side for horizontal shots. A$AP Mob — they’re just like us!

The Gucci and the restless

As the circumstances surrounding Patrizio di Marco and Frida Giannini’s ouster from Gucci continue to unfold, John Koblin obtained a 3,000-word memo by di Marco, described as “equal parts defiant and self-congratulatory. (At one point, he quoted Steve Jobs, saying, ‘The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.’)” But, Koblin added, “above all, it was bitter, blaming his enemies at Gucci — he didn’t name names but instead referred to them as ‘nani,’ or dwarfs — who he implied had plotted his downfall.”

Wave goodbye, Mani Cam

E! did away with the room of one’s groan “because of space constraints.”

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