“I hate procuring,” she says as she checks out on the register.
It’s a stunning admission, given her standing as a bonafide trend icon, however Nyong’o clarifies that it’s the act of procuring she doesn’t take pleasure in. She does, nevertheless, have a deep appreciation for trend and dressing up. “I really like pink carpets. You get to be Cinderella for an evening,” she says. “My life earlier than the launch of my profession didn’t contain a whole lot of ball robes. Now I put on so many and I find it irresistible.”
There’s a sure robe that cemented Nyong’o as a trend It woman: the caped pink Ralph Lauren costume she wore to the 2014 Golden Globes. It topped each best-dressed record — and launched one of the crucial talked-about red-carpet runs in historical past — however Nyong’o says there was some preliminary skepticism in regards to the look.
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“Publicists had been a little bit bit nervous about it as a result of it was so daring,” she says. “There’s a cape. I felt like a superhero in it. One in every of my publicists was so terrified of it, and he or she was like, ‘Perhaps it’s an excessive amount of.’”
It was the primary costume Nyong’o and her longtime stylist, Micaela Erlanger, tried on for the occasion. They explored different choices, however the duo “stored dreaming” in regards to the pink Ralph Lauren, and Nyong’o adopted her intestine. “Purely as a result of I favored it — my rule of thumb has at all times been, I solely need to put on issues that I like, that really feel good to put on,” she says. “And that was a kind of moments.”
Off the pink carpet, Nyong’o considers herself to be an “environment friendly dresser.” She likes to procrastinate and is at all times “dressing up in a panic.” There isn’t something she gained’t put on — although she used to have an entire record. “Micaela one way or the other has labored in every thing on that record to date,” she says. “I stated I by no means needed to put on bias cuts. I wore a bias lower yesterday.”
Lupita Nyong’o has referred to as a whole lot of locations residence. She was born in Mexico, grew up in Kenya, and attended faculty in Massachusetts. Once we hop into the again of her black SUV, we’re taking her to her new residence right here in Los Angeles, the place she moved in June of final 12 months. Nyong’o had lived in Brooklyn for years, and I ask what prompted the change. “I needed to maneuver right here for higher climate and more room,” she says, like a brand new Angelino.
She loves her neighbourhood, however she’s not bought on the LA expertise simply but. “It’s very exhausting to search out the vibe and the rhythm, the group,” she admits. “I do know fewer individuals right here, so it’s a little bit bit socially awkward.” Now that she’s settled, she hopes to broaden her community and make some new mates.
Neighborhood is necessary to Nyong’o, who was “a little bit eccentric” when she was an adolescent. She didn’t conform to how individuals had been supposed to decorate and expressed herself by dyeing her hair inexperienced and making her personal clothes. Her creativity was a deterrent for a few of her mates’ dad and mom, who thought of Nyong’o to be a “dangerous affect.”
“I wasn’t some outcast, I had mates,” she says. Her personal dad and mom had been supportive of her dream to develop into an actor, although they had been “exasperated” by her experimental look, she says. Nonetheless, they allowed her to decorate as she needed “so long as my grades had been up.”
