Karl Lagerfeld's famous cat made £2m last year - that's more than Cara Delevingne earned

Even supermodel Cara Delevigne is struggling to match the earning power of the Siamese, believed to be the world’s most pampered feline.

Lagerfeld, the Chanel and Fendi creative director, revealed that Choupette raked in £2,172,625 from just two jobs – a collaboration with cosmetics brand Shu Uemura, which produced the Shupette collection, and a session posing for a Vauxhall Corsa car calendar.

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Choupette’s earnings are just light of the £2.4m which Delevingne pocketed last year after a year touring the world’s catwalks.

“She did two jobs and made 3 million euros last year,” Lagerfeld told the New York website The Cut. “One was for cars in Germany and the other was for a Japanese beauty product.”

Choupette’s earnings are dwarfed by the $100m in commercial deals which Internet sensation Grumpy Cat is believed to have accrued. But that is by design. “I don’t allow her to do foodstuffs and things like this. She’s too sophisticated for that,” the designer said of his whiskered muse.

Choupette accompanied Lagerfeld to the launch of his latest Metiers d'Art collection for Chanel in New York, where she enjoyed her own room at the Mercer Hotel, with a maid on attendance.

The cat has provided the German designer, 81, with design inspiration and occasionally delivers words of wisdom to her devotees via Twitter. A book, The Private Life of a High-Flying Fashion Cat, disclosed that Choupette has her own iPad and eats next to Lagerfeld at the table from Goyard china.

Lagerfeld explained Choupette’s singular devotion. “She hates other animals and she hates children,” he said. “She stays always with me and she has two personal maids. They play with her, they have to take care of her beautiful white hair, the beauty treatments for her eyes, and they entertain her. She is the centre of the world. If you saw her, you would understand.”

“She is kind of Greta Garbo,” the besotted designer said. “There is something unforgettable about her, the way she moves, the way she plays. She’s an inspiration for elegance. For attitude.” Karl Lagerfeld and his beloved cat were immortalised

They met through a mutual friend. “Choupette belonged to a friend of mine who asked if my maid could take care of her for two weeks when he was away,” Lagerfeld explained.

“When he came back, he was told that Choupette would not return to him. He got another cat who became fat, and Choupette became the most famous cat in the world, and the richest.”

Choupette’s reign as the “It Cat” is set to continue. She is the new cover star of US fashion magazine Lucky’s “100+ Stylish Animals” issue.

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