‘Found’ tuxedo brings good luck for director

If you lost a suitcase containing a black tux in the last few decades, your formal wear might have made it to the champagne carpet at Sunday’s Academy Awards. And it may be extremely lucky.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” co-director

Daniel Scheinert, who shared awards for best director and best original screenplay with his creative partner, Daniel Kwan, wore an outfit salvaged from lost luggage to the biggest night in showbiz. The multiverse movie was the big winner of the night, claiming best picture among its seven trophies and making

Michelle Yeoh the first Asian woman to win the Oscar for best actress.

While fellow stars donned Louis Vuitton and Versace, Scheinert sported a black tuxedo from Unclaimed Baggage, a store in Scottsboro, Ala., that is exactly what it sounds like. The business has been around for more than 50 years, buying left-behind bags from airlines and then selling, recycling and donating the spoils. (Don’t worry — these are “truly orphaned” bags that airlines have tried extensively to reunite with their owners).

Every day, the store processes thousands of leftbehind bags, turning up everything from diamond earrings to mounted deer skulls. A third of what they buy gets donated to charity, a third gets recycled and a third goes up for sale online and in person. Scheinert, a Birmingham native, snagged the tux at its 50,000-squarefoot retail space.

“We think that it’s incredible,” said Jennifer Kritner, Unclaimed Baggage’s vice president of retail and company culture, as well as the director of its charity, Reclaimed for Good.

“Daniel is kind of known for representing his state,” she added. “I think he’s worn an Alabama Crimson Tide T-shirt to another event and a camouflage poncho that belonged to his granddad.” Scheinert’s co-director,

Daniel Kwan, also made headlines for his outfit choice, styled by Shirley

Kurata. Kwan’s crimson tux with “Punk” emblazoned across the back was a custom piece — a smoking jacket version of the cardigan actress Yeoh’s character, Evelyn, wore in the movie.