As we prepare for the Oscars I feel that it’s important to mention that it’s not just the awards themselves that are big business. Over the last decade or so, the red carpet itself has become a huge business. With avenues like E! covering the event every year, the red carpet pre-game show is sometimes as popular if not more than the event itself. The question “who are you wearing” has become synonymous with big time events like this. So while I can sit here and complain that I think it’s ridiculous that it’s a big deal what people wear to the Oscars, I can’t argue with that fact that it’s a genre in and of itself. Which brings us to Meryl Streep. Streep can lay claim to “dumbest Oscar story” number one.
Designer Karl Lagerfeld told Women’s Wear Daily that the couture house was actually in the midst of adjusting an embroidered gray silk gown for Meryl Streep to wear to the awards ceremony. Days after Lagerfeld says he made a sketch and work began on the dress, Streep’s team contacted the house to cancel the order.
“Don’t continue the dress,” Lagerfeld says he was told. “We found somebody who will pay us.” That’s right – Streep’s team apparently went with a designer who was willing to pay. Chanel, Lagerfled explained, has a strict policy of not paying individuals to wear the house’s designs. And no, Streep doesn’t get a pass on that. In typical Lagerfeld style, he added, “A genius actress, but cheapness also, no?”
A rep for Meryl Streep later denied these claims saying it was against Streep’s personal ethics to be paid to wear a dress. Seriously, who cares? I’m pretty sure the person who cares the least is Meryl Streep. Nevertheless this is consider Oscars news. I consider it a waste of time. But here I am writing about it! Perhaps because it’s 11pm on a Saturday. I really need to get out more.
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