Lenny Kravitz Tweeted That He Lost His Sunglasses. Now What?

Today, Lenny Kravitz took to Twitter to post a plea for his lost sunglasses. The entertainer, known for pheromone-soaked, artfully tattered rockstar style, tweeted that he was missing his sunglasses after a show in Los Angeles at The Shrine this past Saturday. “They are incredibly sentimental to me, they are vintage and they belonged to a family member. Hoping to get them back, no questions asked. Any information please email kravitzglasses@gmail.com,” he wrote. Kravtiz included two images of himself wearing the oversize, silver, rectangular-frame sunglasses; one of which was a photo of himself at this past VMAs.

I can’t blame Lenny for turning to Twitter. I took a moment to search the sad recesses of Craigslist to see what people have lost. There are parrots (“His name is Spencer and he is a cockatiel,” one post reads), plenty of wallets (“Last had my wallet after swiping metrocard in Times Square.”) and even the occasional piece of stray footwear (“I somehow lost one Chloe flat shoe.”) But it’s the sentimental stuff that really hits home. In the mix are people writing about their father’s missing military dog tags from the ’70s, engagement rings, and a grandmother’s earring. The world is lost with MIA things and people go to the ends of the earth, or recesses of Twitter and Craigslist, to get them back.

No one is immune to misplacing something, including Vogue writers and editors. Market Editor Anny Choi recalls a time when she lost a Henri Bendel cuff, a gift from her little sister. “It was right after the Gossip Girl series, so anything from there was really chic! I had never owned any designer jewelry before and I think this was a going-away-to-college present so it was very sentimental,” writes Choi. “I wore it out to a club, and came back to my dorm and realized then that it was no longer on my wrist. I went back to the club, and literally crawled back and forth on the dirty floor to look for this bracelet. I never found it, but I felt horrible and did everything in my power to retrace my steps.”

While some may not be so lucky, others have had the joy of discovering a once-lost object—multiple times! “I have a cursed Louis Vuitton wallet that I've lost on multiple occasions. But I've always gotten it back!” says Fashion and Style Writer Christian Allaire. “The first time was in a taxi: I was with my mom, and when we realized I left it in the back seat, we chased it down the street and got it back. I've forgotten it in a movie theatre, and stormed back for it as the ending credits were still rolling. The third time, I somehow left it on the subway, and was notified by the Lost and Found the next day that someone had turned it in—cash still intact.”

Sometimes, finding a lost object can feel nothing short of miraculous. Fashion News Director Chioma Nnadi recalls a moment years back at a club. “It was when Mark Ronson threw a night at this club called Table 50.” (It was “the dopest,” she says.) Nnadi found a pair of Phoebe Philo-era Chloé sunglasses on a chair. Three years later, while wearing them, Nnadi met a friend, the New York-based graffiti-designer Claw Money, who said she once had a similar pair. “She saw me and was like, ‘Oh I had a pair like that but I lost them in a club.’ I offered to give them back,” says Nnadi. “And she was like, ‘Nah, it’s all good. I’m happy they went to someone nice!”

In Lenny’s case, let’s hope that fate is on his side and he will be reunited with his sunglasses. More is at stake here than a rock star's vintage eyewear. As one Twitter user put, “Please return [the] glasses to Lenny. Sometimes it’s the memory [,] not the item that is important.”

Originally Appeared on Vogue