Feb. 24 (UPI) — Meryl Streep is refuting a report that states the actress denied wearing a Chanel Oscar dress in favor of getting paid to wear another from a different designer.
“This is a completely untrue story,” a rep for Streep said to Entertainment Tonight.
“Ms. Streep would NEVER wear anything in exchange for payment. This can be corroborated by Nancy Walsh [director of public relations] at Chanel,” the rep continued.
Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld had stated to WWD that Streep wanted to wear a gray silk gown from his recent couture collection for the Oscars.
According to Lagerfeld, as production on the custom gown started, a member of her team had told them “Don’t continue the dress. We found somebody who will pay us.”
“After we gift her a dress that’s 100,000 euros [$105,000], we found later we had to pay [for her to wear it]. We give them dresses, we make the dresses, but we don’t pay,” Lagerfeld said of the fashion brands policy to not pay celebrities to wear its clothes. “A genius actress, but cheapness also, no?”
Streep is nominated for Best Actress as the Academy Awards Sunday for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins. This is her 20th nomination, making her the most nominated performer in Oscars history.
