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Karl Lagerfeld’s precious cat, Choupette, was welcomed to the Met Gala.
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The cat runs out the bag.
The late Karl Lagerfeld’s beloved cat, Choupette, has actually been officially welcomed to the Met Gala, The Post can specifically reveal.
“She got the invitation,” Lucas Berullier, Choupette’s agent and owner of My Pet Agency, which focuses on animal influencers, informed The Post by phone Friday from Paris.
“It’s an event in honor of the legacy of Karl, and Choupette is obviously a central part of the legacy,” Berullier addd.
The style of this year’s Costume Institute exhibit is Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty. It will commemorate the renowned German designer, who worked for Chanel, Fendi, Balmain and myriad other style homes prior to his death in 2019.
Some are hypothesizing that Choupette might be the star of the red carpet at the yearly gala, which is overseen by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, on May 1.
“[I’d imagine] her entering with a big entourage — maybe Anna, or Grace Coddington. I think the way to show stop would be [entering] by herself, or with the biggest celebrity, maybe Beyoncé,” Michelle Baron, an illustrator who dealt with the 2015 coffee table book, “Where’s Karl?: A Fashion-Forward Parody,” informed The Post.
“Or maybe she’ll be escorted by Karl’s old bodyguard, Sébastien Jondeau,” she continued.
Born a Leo on August 15, 2011, the blue-cream tortie Birman fur ball was initially owned by French design Baptiste Giabiconi. He got the kitten on his birthday from pals and called her for the “common nickname in French for cute girls,” according to the New York Times.
That year, Giabiconi asked Lagerfeld to cat-sit around the vacations. The designer was at first hesitant however rapidly fell in love.
“It became clear to me that Choupette brought Karl great joy,” Giabiconi informed the Times. So he chose to let Lagerfeld keep the kitten.
The rest is style history.
The quite cat went viral in early 2012 after V Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Stephen Gan, tweeted out a photo of Choupette, presenting her as Lagerfeld’s “new kitty.”
In 2014, Choupette protected her own makeup line by Shu Uemura, and the money cat went on to generate over $2 million doing a campaign for a German car.
News outlets called the cat “the most famous feline in the world.” When she wasn’t strutting down the runway, she was by Lagerfeld’s side in a customized $3,000 Louis Vuitton purse.
“The two of them, they were larger than life,” said Baron.
Lagerfeld even endearingly called designs Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Depp, Kaia Gerber, Adwoa Aboah and Cara Delevingne his “Choupettes.”
“[Karl] used to say ‘In my life, my priority is Choupette over everything else,’” Berullier said. “She was everything to him. He said, ‘I’d like to be reincarnated as Choupette.’ People believe Karl is around when Choupette is around, which is kind of magical.”
Fashion market professionals state possibly the most capitivating aspect of Choupette isn’t simply her bushy tail and intense blue cat eyes — it was her capability to soften her owner.
“Choupette was a phenomenon. Karl Lagerfeld wasn’t really perceived as a warm and fuzzy person, so it made it incredibly ironic that he basically fell in love with Choupette and she did become his furry muse which kind of humanized him which was sort of lovely,” Kathlin Argiro, a designer teacher at the Fashion Institute of Technology, informed The Post.
“It’s something that the fashion industry, pretty easily feed into. She’s a beautiful cat. She’s very elegant, she’s jet setting — what’s not to love?”
In 2018, Lagerfeld informed French publication Numero that he had actually called the cat as one of the beneficiaries to his estate.
Lagerfeld passed away in February 2019 at age 85, it was reported that he left his fortune to Choupette.
Berullier said the specific information of Lagerfeld’s estate as it associated to the cat are uncertain.
“It’s still a mystery. He [Karl] was a very generous man [he wanted to make sure] she’s [Choupette] never in need.”
In the years considering that Lagerfeld’s death, Choupette has actually been capably taken care of by his previous house cleaner, Françoise Caçote.
“She’s very spoiled by products and gifts,” said Berullier. “Most of them end up being donated. She still has a very luxurious lifestyle.”
The cat continues to deal with event, doing projects for the Karl Lagerfeld brand name, high-end animal line LucyBalu and L’Oréal.
Berullier phases periodic shoots with the cat on a parked personal jet for Instagram, where the spoiled animal delights in over 132,000 fans.
The swank cat is likewise returning, by means of her brand-new name charity organization the Choupette Fund, which assists roaming cats.
While Berullier stays tight-lipped about whether the cat will go to the gala — and both Vogue and The Met decreased to comment for this post — there’s no concern that Lagerfeld’s muse is living well.
“At the end of the day she’s a cat — she needs good food, to be looked after and loved. She’s eating well,” he said.
“Obviously she’s not flying private jets and having 10 people working for her every day, but Françoise is working for her full-time. That’s what Karl wanted for her.”
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