CHOUPETTE has a problem. She’s been invited to more black-tie parties than her schedule allows, and her handlers can’t decide which A-list event would induce a purr from the world’s most famous feline and which would end with her claws out.
Her former owner, you see, is in the news. As the fashion world prepared to honour late design legend Karl Lagerfeld, aka Monsieur Choupette, at this year’s Met Gala in New York, held at the beginning of this month, his famous feline appeared in the latest issue of Vogue – cradled in Naomi Campbell’s arms in a portrait shot by celebrity portraitist Annie Leibovitz.
Added to that, a biopic starring Jared Leto as the long-time creative director of Chanel is in the works, and a Disney+ series about the designer starring Daniel Brühl, titled Kaiser Karl, is also set to be released this year.
The cat’s agent, Lucas Bérullier, confirms that Choupette has been invited to glittering soirées in the world’s fashion capitals. But the jet-setting life can be tiring once you hit double digits (Choupette is now 11), and the only solution he can see is to allow the cat to do her own RSVPs.
“In the end, she knows,” says Bérullier, who started My Pet Agency in his native Paris six years ago. “We need to choose
