Honoring the greatness of cats in the fashion world, Jared Leto surprised celebrity guests at the 2023 Met Gala when he rocked the red carpet in a life-size suit representing Karl Lagerfeld’s cat, Choupette.
With this year’s Met dress code theme in honor of the late designer and fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld—Leto did not wear Gucci, or van Herpen, or any other discernible luxury designer in Vogue Runway’s Rolodex. Instead, he arrived on the carpet wearing an incredibly intricate feline costume made in the likeness of Lagerfeld’s famed Birman cat, Choupette.
Or, as Nick Jonas put it to Vogue on the red carpet: “Jared Leto showed up as a furry.”
Jared Leto was not the only celeb who wore a cat-themed frog to the world’s most glamorous fashion occasion. The appropriately named Doja Cat also sported a very cat-focused look on the red carpet. wearing feline-like face prosthetics and a beaded cat-eared cap with her Oscar de la Renta gown, Dojo Cat went the Animorphs route.
Realistic Choupette or Sexy Choupette. Different approaches, similarly wild results.
