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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
Hannah Marriott

The designers of Jared Leto’s Met Gala look: ‘He wanted it to be like a real cat’

man in a cat costume
US actor Jared Leto arrives for the 2023 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

There was only one winner of the Met Gala red carpet last night: a gargantuan cat costume with whiskers, plush paws and hyper-real blue eyes, which had Jared Leto inside it.

Leto’s look comfortably overshadowed acres of pearl-encrusted gowns at the Met’s annual fundraiser. The theme was late designer Karl Lagerfeld; Leto came as Choupette, the pet he reportedly left £1.3m ($1.6m) in his will and scored a major publicity land grab.

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