At Monday’s Met Gala, Doja Cat wowed and meowed as she channeled — fittingly — Karl Lagerfeld’s beloved pet cat Choupette. And Jared Leto even took the feline trend a step additional, displaying up in a full-on cat go well with.
Doja Cat is thought for her daring appears; throughout Couture Trend Week in Paris earlier this 12 months, the singer and rapper made headlines for her look in head-to-toe purple physique paint and 30,000 purple Swarovski crystals (utilized by make-up artist Pat McGrath and her workforce) for the Schiaparelli Haute Couture Spring/Summer time 2023 runway present. And Leto — who Nick Jonas mentioned “got here as a furry” — can also be identified for his experimental type.
In the course of the Vogue livestream, Doja Cat informed host LaLa Anthony that her costume is Oscar de la Renta, and that her good friend Melina did her cat prosthetics and Saccia Livingston did her nails (learn: claws). “That is my first Met,” Doja Cat mentioned, revealing that regardless of it being her maiden voyage, she wasn’t nervous. “It’s actually not unhealthy. Usually it’s kinda unhealthy. I really feel good, I really feel relaxed right here. I don’t know — possibly it’s the beige. I really feel actually calm, it’s very good.” The artist added that she’s hoping to have some good dialog tonight, earlier than meowing to shut out the interview.
Doja Cat
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Forward of the 2023 Met Gala, there was hypothesis about whether or not Lagerfeld’s blue-cream tortie Birman cat Choupette would present up herself however the closest to a full-on cat was Leto in his furry go well with. One other cat-esque look arrived on the purple carpet courtesy of Lil Nas X who wore a jeweled masks with cat-like whiskers. And Janelle Monáe accessorized with a white cat purse.
The costume code merely reads “In honor of Karl,” leaving it largely up for interpretation for the celebrities attending — and their stylists.
Jared Leto
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The Met Gala, held because the annual fundraiser for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute, has been organized and presided over by Anna Wintour since 1995. It’s timed to coincide with the revealing of the museum’s annual trend exhibition and this 12 months’s is concentrated on Karl Lagerfeld. Titled Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence, the gathering honors the life and legendary profession of the late designer who died on Feb. 19, 2019, and options greater than 150 items together with sketches.
The Met Gala program options Penélope Cruz, Michaela Coel, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa, and Vogue‘s Wintour because the night time’s co-chairs.
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