Pet Fashion Week offers style tips for pampered pooches

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007

NEW YORK (AFP) — For discriminating pets, it really was the cat's pajamas: New York's second annual Pet Fashion Week offered everything a pampered pooch could ever want, from jewel-encrusted leashes to doggy perfume.

Among the canine clients at the event on Sunday was Chai, a short-haired white American Bulldog with blue eyes, dressed in a pink and bronze satin cape made especially for the weekend event.

"We closed our pet shop in Baltimore for three days to come here. The dress was made for her, for the event," explained Thomas Berger, Chai's owner.

Nearby, a male model strutting in just his underpants led a honey-colored Greyhound dressed in a camouflage outfit up the catwalk.

The show lasted a good hour, featuring dogs modelling designs from 20 or...