Lupita Nyong’o rolled up to the Oscars 2025 carpet in a custom CHANEL piece—ivory charmeuse, long and pleated, with a resille bustier covered in silver crystal bugle beads, pearls, and braided details. It pulls from look 74 of the house’s Spring-Summer 1991 Haute Couture, remade for today with 660 hours of work and 22,410 embroidery elements. She’s CHANEL’s ambassador, starring in Wild Robot—nominated for Best Animated Feature—and this dress, tied off with an ivory satin belt and matched with CHANEL shoes, plants her as red-carpet royalty.
The jewelry takes it somewhere else. Lupita grabbed the “Colibri” bracelet—white gold, pearls, diamonds—and turned it into a hair statement. Add the “Signature de Perles” earrings and “Signature White Tie” bracelet, both in white gold with cultured pearls and diamonds, plus the “Motif Russe” and “Tweed Icône” rings in 18K white gold. It’s CHANEL High Jewelry doing its thing, tied to the house’s latest moves under Virginie Viard, who’s kept the vibe sharp—see the Fall-Winter 2024/25 Haute Couture collection from June for the receipts.
This is more than a look; it’s a power play. Lupita’s been with CHANEL since 2014, and with Wild Robot buzz peaking (it’s already got critical love pre-Oscars), she’s pairing the role with a fit that’s all precision, no fluff. The dress took over 600 hours and 22,410 elements to pull off—a clean reminder of CHANEL’s couture edge. Lupita’s not here to mess around; she’s running the show.
