Lupita Nyong’o, who has become a firm fashion favourite over award season was the red carpet FAB at the 2014 Academy Awards—and said she chose the pale blue Prada gown as it reminded her of her native Kenya.

‘This is Prada and it was made for me,’ she told E!’s Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. ‘It’s a blue that reminds me of the Nairobi sky.’

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