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It's been a particularly active year for jewelry heists. Just two months after the multimillion-dollar Cannes capers, the BBC has reported yet another jewel theft from a hotel in the French seaside village.
An armed robber made his way into the Carltonhotel and stuffed an estimated $53 million worth of Leviev jewels into his briefcase before making off with them. The jewels were being housed in the hotel's lobby as part of an exhibition. Police are still working to calculate the exact value of the gems taken, but if it's confirmed at the speculated amount it would be the second-biggest jewelry heist in French history.
Police are still gathering information about this robbery, but there are plenty of other fashion thefts that still haven't been completely solved. Case in point: only a portion of the legendary raid at the Harry Winston store in Paris was ever found, and it doesn't appear that all of Marc Jacobs's stolen Spring 2012 samples were found.
Herein, a look at some of the most brazen, lucrative, and strange thefts in fashion.