Fashion Week: pets also have their parades
Flyskirt, lamé vest, wigs and big earrings, Paco and Pearl seem a little nervous. In a few minutes, start the parade.
Publié le 13 févr. 2015 Brigitte Dusseau AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEPaco and Pearl are two chihuahuas. Because in New York City during fashion Week, even pets have their parades.
Ils étaient quelque 150 jeudi soir, dans un grand hôtel de Manhattan, à participer ainsi à la 11e édition annuelle du New York Pet Show: des chiens, quelques chats, deux poules et même un gros lézard, qui devait défiler avec une minuscule jupe en plumes sur une planche à roulettes, idée de sa maîtresse pour ne pas s'éterniser sur le podium.
Yeyush, a 7-year-old Chihuahua with his Instagram account, came in black jacket, bandana with small death heads and sunglasses, accompanied by his master Sergio Galdamez, a New Yorker of Guatemalan origin.
Juju, a Yorkshire terrier, wears a long dress of vintage lace with strong pink knots.
Paco, Pearl and Penelope, another little Yorkshire terrier dressed in silver lamé, are dressed like their masters, a Dallas couple resolutely disco. Because the evening is marked by the 60s and 70s.
Lady Gaga and Beyoncé are not really from the time: Lady Gaga is completely pink fluo, Beyoncé wears a small vest. "I wanted to be unique, I wanted to be different, so I chose chickens," told AFP owner Sharon Folken of Brooklyn, his two birds a little agitated in their arms. And she makes it clear, love of animals, that Lady Gaga's dye is not dangerous.
Sewing Designer
Some designers are more serious, such as Anthony Rubio, a sewing designer for animals. In 2014, he was named Designer of the Year at the New York pet show. He no longer marches because "it is no longer necessary", but has come with his two chihuahuas Bogie and Kimba, the meticulously disguised trio disguised as the Beatles'"Sergeant pepper fanfare". He made all three suits green, red and blue. For ten years, he has been making "sewing" animal clothing, and his business, he says, is doing well.
The dog suit that won him last year was $5,000. This year, Bogie's little red hat, handmade, costs 150, his tiny suit between 400 and 500.
"I was one of the first animal designers," he says.
Chen Sahar, a young jeweler from Tel Aviv, created a necklace and ring worn by Annabelle, an 8-month-old puppy offered for adoption, especially for the evening and its three parades. Price of the set, $12,000. Chen also wears a matching necklace.
"this is the first time I've made jewellery for animals," she says. "but I like special projects."
The atmosphere is relaxed and joyful, between dog strollers, specialist product vendors and models waiting with their master behind the scenes.
"my boys love getting dressed all the time. They have a wardrobe much more important than mine, "says Anthony Rubio of his chihuahuas.
Only the bearded agame (big lizard) that its owner Susi Lacoff Resnser is about to show on his skateboard seems absolutely indifferent.
The purpose of the evening was, as every year, to adopt abandoned animals, actors of the first parade, and to raise funds for associations working to save these abandoned animals.
"we hope to raise a lot of money," said confident New York pet show President Gregg Oehler.
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