Met Gala 2023: Doja Cat Clearly Understood The Assignment - She Dressed As Karl Lagerfeld's Cat

Met Gala 2023: A tribute in its truest sense

As celebs poured in for the 2023 Met Gala, rapper-singer Doja Cat paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld by wearing his favourite cat Choupette-themed look. Doja Cat showed up in a white gown with a cat ear hood. To justify her look, she even wore cat prosthetics on her face. As per a report by The Standard, People magazine cited wrote that Choupette first became part of Lagerfeld's life in 2011. Reports say that initially, Lagerfeld had just agreed to catsit Choupette, who then belonged to model Baptise Giabiconi, but ended up adopting the feline as his own.

In conversation with People in 2013, Lagerfeld had admitted that a friend of his got Choupette when she was only 3 months old and asked if Lagerfeld could take her in his house and take care of her.

"And then when she came back 2 weeks later I said 'I am sorry Choupette will stay," he had revealed about how the darling kitten came into his life.

Lagerfeld quickly turned Choupette into a fashionista of sorts with modeling gigs and product collaborations for her. The feline also has her own social media director to run her Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and blog -- all called Choupette's Diary.