Zendaya reportedly wants a dedicated climate-controlled room built in her home to store the custom £200,000 gown she wore to marry Tom Holland, because she refuses to hand it over to an outside storage company.
The 30-year-old actress and her husband, also 30, are looking into the installation after their three-day wedding celebration at the Beaverbrook estate in the Surrey Hills of England, The Sun reported. The custom gown, designed by Maison Schiaparelli, contains silk components that require storage temperatures between 59°F and 64°F and must never be kept above 73°F. Exposure to the wrong temperature or humidity risks discoloration and damage.
An unnamed source close to the couple said Zendaya does not want to rely on a specialist storage firm. The dress, the source said, means too much to her.
"Ideally, she wants it to be with her at their home so they're looking into getting a climate-controlled room installed so it's safe and that she can put it on if she wants to."
That last detail, she wants to be able to put it on again, says something about how the couple views the gown. It is not a museum piece to be sealed away. It is personal property she intends to keep close.
The wedding at the historic Beaverbrook estate reportedly cost around £500,000. Some 250 friends and family attended the festivities, which stretched over three days on the 370-acre property. Holland grew up in Kingston upon Thames in southwest London, just 11 miles from the venue.
Holland had previously revealed that the couple held a private ceremony before the larger celebration. Whether that earlier event was a separate legal wedding or a more intimate gathering remains unclear from available reporting.
The same source described the bride's appearance in glowing terms.
"Zendaya looked incredible as she walked down the aisle. Her dress was stunning and very classic but now she needs to keep it safe."
The source added that Zendaya does not want the dress seen publicly or photographed, a posture consistent with the couple's well-known preference for keeping their personal lives out of the tabloid cycle. The pair guarded their relationship for years before gradually acknowledging it in public.
The wedding dress story landed alongside another headline for the couple. Holland was named the world's highest-grossing actor, with his films accumulating a combined $15.5 billion at the global box office. That distinction, reported the same day Zendaya debuted a pixie haircut at a Prada event in New York, underlines the sheer commercial weight the two carry in Hollywood.
Both are set to appear in upcoming projects together, including The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. After the wedding, the couple reportedly planned to step away from the spotlight for a stretch before returning to work.
Holland's career trajectory, from a teenage Spider-Man to the top of the global box-office rankings, has been one of the more remarkable runs in recent franchise filmmaking. He has also pursued projects outside the superhero genre, including a planned Fred Astaire biopic.
The practical question is straightforward. Silk is fragile. A £200,000 couture gown made by one of the world's premier fashion houses cannot sit in a closet. Temperature swings, humidity, and light exposure all threaten the fabric over time. Climate-controlled storage is standard practice for high-value garments in museum and auction settings.
What sets this apart is the scale of the solution. Rather than shipping the dress to a professional facility, where it would be handled by strangers and potentially seen or photographed, Zendaya reportedly wants to bring the facility to her. A purpose-built room, maintained at the correct temperature year-round, inside the couple's own home.
Whether the room has been commissioned or remains in the planning stages is not clear. The source described the couple as "looking into" the installation, leaving open the possibility that final decisions have not been made.
For a couple that earned its privacy the hard way, navigating years of tabloid speculation before confirming their relationship on their own terms, the instinct to keep even a wedding dress under personal control tracks. When you can afford to build a room for it, you build the room.
