{blackbabes} Lupita Nyong'o wasn't always a fashion savant

Lupita Nyong'o was on Vogue's cover last summer, but the designers of clothing line Veronica Beard said the actress wasn't as savvy about fashion just months before.

"Lupita came in just after she was nominated [for '12 Years a Slave'] and admitted she didn't know what she was doing," said Veronica Miele Beard at a Q&A with Alina Cho at the Central Park Conservancy Winter Luncheon.

A year later, "she felt how important clothes were." Beard designs the line with sister-in-law Veronica Swanson Beard.