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\r\nIn 2011, Choupette entered his life \u2012 a cat entrusted to him by model Baptiste Giabiconi for the two-week Christmas holiday. \u201cKaiser Karl\u201d fell so deeply in love with her that he didn\u2019t want to give her back; for eight years, the little feline (a Birman) served as his muse and faithful companion, starring in countless advertising campaigns and even featuring on Karl Lagerfeld branded products (ranging from T-shirts to earrings) some of which are still for sale today.
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\r\nLagerfeld, an avowed bibliophile who even founded a publishing house and opened a bookstore, would have adored the book Gatto<\/em> [Cat<\/em>], a Phaidon project recently published in Italy by Marsilio Arte. It features a delightful preface by Hannah Shaw and a two-page spread entitled “A Brief History of the Cat in Visual Culture” by Leila Jarboual. Beyond these two deeply human written contributions, the stars of the volume\u2019s 230-plus pages are the cats themselves and the artists who portrayed them.
\r\nTHE BOOK ABOUT CATS<\/h2>
\r\nIt is a safe bet that had Lagerfeld still been alive, he would have found a way to include Choupette, whom he photographed and depicted in the most curious poses, in shots ranging from everyday life to fashion photoshoots. The works featured (and concisely, effectively described) in the book follow neither a chronological order nor a classification by genre or technique. Instead, they form a wonderful mosaic of the feline world as seen by us humans: the opening piece is a 1995 Herm\u00e8s silk scarf designed by Christine Henry that, at first glance \u2012 before one reads the description \u2012 might be mistaken for a Byzantine mosaic (its \u201ctitle\u201d is Cave felem<\/em>). The final two entries \u2012 last but certainly not least \u2012 are a 2010 black-and-white photograph by Sohrab Hura and a 2024 acrylic-on-paper work by David Shrigley.
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\r\nIn between, there are drawings, paintings, more photographs, and a few design objects. We do not envy the person who selected these works; it must have been a painstaking task. Yet, we admire the result, for it captures both the allure of the visual arts and the mystery of the feline world \u2012 a universe parallel to our own that prompts us to reflect on ourselves and, if we are fortunate enough to be artists, to express our creativity.
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