A number of trendy felines left their scent on the 2023 Met Gala pink carpet on Monday (Could 1), however Doja Cat was simply the choose of the litter. The singer-rapper’s dazzling Oscar de la Renta robe – full with a cat-eared hood and complemented by a prosthetic cat face – was an homage to Choupette, the beloved kitty of the late Karl Lagerfeld. (This yr’s gala theme was “in honor of Karl.”)
Though Doja was removed from the one Choupette on the pink carpet – Lil Nas X drew upon the well-known feline, as did Jared Leto in a somewhat literal interpretation –the “Have to Know” star’s knockout look left us needing to know extra about the way it got here collectively.
In line with Oscar de la Renta co-creative administrators Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the ODLR/Doja Cat collab loosely traces again to Doja’s Billboard Sizzling 100 high 10 “Vegas.” Within the music video for the Elvis soundtrack hit, Doja rocked a floral Monse costume, which Kim and Garcia (Monse founders) “beloved.”
“Since then we had wished to discover a particular, collaborative second with Oscar de la Renta,” Kim tells Billboard. “She’s trend’s ‘it-girl,’ so we’re thrilled to have been capable of costume her for her first Met.”
Given the 2023 gala’s theme and “Kiss Me Extra” artist’s moniker, the look was in all probability inevitable. “After we came upon concerning the theme for this yr’s Met Gala, it was very clear to us all inside a day or two that she needed to be Choupette,” Garcia says. “We labored with a cushty period of time — round 5 months, which allowed us to think about a number of swatches and conduct correct fittings. Having an ample period of time led to the success and great thing about this robe.”
Though the 2 are skilled trend professionals, this robe was a primary for each. “Now we have created hooded robes prior to now,” Garcia says, “However that is the primary hooded robe with cat ears we have now ever completed, so we wished it to be tremendous refined and really feel elegant.”
Contemplating Doja made the lion’s share of ‘greatest dressed’ lists, it appears the remainder of the world was feline it, too.
