Issue 01 · Fashion Month · Paris

Ninette, a tiny honey-gold tabby kitten with a pale-gold ribbon and a paw-print charm, sits with her eyes closed on the cherry-red cover
  • ExclusiveThe kitten nobody booked
  • Nine looksShe finished five
  • P.024Why she never opens her eyes

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On her pale-gold satin ribbon, her own · Shoes none; four white socks, also her own · Styled by nobody, she refused

Issue 01 — The fashion-month issue of the cat meta

Dogs went to the moon. Cats went to Paris.

A ten-week-old tabby followed a gold ribbon onto a Paris runway. She walked the whole thing with her eyes closed, and every camera in the room went off.

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In this issue

One kitten. One ribbon. Nine looks, four of which went wrong. Read in order, like paper.

  1. 009Letter from the editorA very famous family, and its smallest member
  2. 024Cover storyThe ribbon, the stage door, the runway
  3. 048The showFive walked. Three cancelled. One kept.
  4. 096Backstage & streetA light box, a mirror, a wet street
  5. 120The comp cardNinette, by the numbers
  6. 140The guest listRow A, seat nine. How to get in.
  7. 164Back coverNEUF, a fragrance that does not exist

P.009 — Letter from the editor

Big sister got nine lives. Little sister got the runway.

A formal family portrait on a cherry velvet sofa: an elderly shiba inu, tiny Ninette between them, and a grown tabby cat with closed eyes
Pictured the family, by age: the dog, the sister, the little sister · Seating she chose the centre

Everybody knows the dog. The dog went to the moon, and the internet went with him. Fewer people know that the dog had a sister: a tabby called Cate, who kept her eyes closed, looked after the house and quietly became a market of her own.

Almost nobody knew there was a third one. She is ten weeks old. She weighs about as much as a croissant. She has the family's honey-gold coat, four white socks and one habit nobody can explain: she walks with her eyes shut.

This season, somebody in Paris left a stage door open. She did not see it, obviously. She walked through anyway, and everything after this page is what happened next.

the Editor(also a cat)

P.024 — Cover story

She kept her eyes closed. Paris kept its open.

Black-and-white photograph of Ninette walking straight toward the camera down the runway, one paw lifted
On her the ribbon · Film black and white, because she asked · Eyes a slow blink, not a nap
“She walked to the end, sat down, raised her chin, and the room went white.”— a photographer in the pit, still blinking
  1. 01

    The ribbon

    A spool of pale-gold satin rolled off a rail backstage. The end of it slipped under the stage door. Ninette was on the other side.

  2. 02

    The stage door

    She followed the ribbon through the door, past a guard, past a clipboard, and out into the light. Nobody stopped her. Nobody could see her. She is very small.

  3. 03

    The end of the runway

    She walked the whole thing, eyes closed, and sat down at the very end. Four hundred and twelve flashes fired. By morning there was a magazine.

P.048 — The show

Nine looks. She finished five.

  1. Look 01: Ninette walks toward the camera trailing a very long gold ribbon like a train
    Look 01

    The Ribbon

    On her 2.4 metres of pale-gold satin, off a rail · Tripped no

  2. Look 02

    Sat down.

    She reached the top of the runway and stayed there. The front row applauded anyway.

    Cancelled

  3. Look 03: Ninette in a tiny cream pearl collar, glancing back over her shoulder
    Look 03

    The Pearls

    On her cream pearl collar, borrowed · Returned no

  4. Look 04

    Fell asleep.

    Look 04 was scheduled for 8:14 pm. At 8:14 pm she was asleep on the cape meant for look 07.

    Cancelled

  5. Look 05: Ninette walks in tiny black sunglasses, indoors, at night
    Look 05

    Sunglasses Indoors

    On her black sunglasses, indoors, at night · Needed not at all

  6. Look 06

    Walked the wrong way.

    She walked off the side of the runway and into row A. The designer called it the exit of the season.

    Kept

  7. Look 07: Ninette in a tiny cherry-red satin cape that floats behind her
    Look 07

    The Cape

    On her cherry satin cape · Fastened with the paw-print charm

  8. Look 08

    Stopped for a moth.

    A moth crossed the runway at 8:31 pm. Look 08 was never seen again. Neither was the moth.

    Cancelled

  9. Look 09, the finale: Ninette sits at the end of the runway, eyes closed, as dozens of flashes go off
    Look 09 · Finale

    The Ninth

    On her everything she walked in with · Flashes four hundred and twelve

P.096 — Backstage & street

Hair and make-up: she licked herself.

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The frame chosen for the cover16A cover!
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Ninette grooming her white paw in front of a backstage mirror framed with bulbs
Grooming self-service · Products tongue · Time 40 minutes, one paw
Flash-lit night street-style photo of Ninette walking on wet Paris cobblestones past a café
Spotted outside the show, 11:48 pm · On her the ribbon, still · Comment none

P.120 — The comp card

The only photo where she looked.

Every model has a card. This is hers. The front is the only frame in the whole issue with her eyes open. The back has the numbers.

Ninette's comp-card headshot, eyes open for once, big amber-honey eyes
NinetteCatewalk Models · Paris

P.140 — The guest list

Row A. Seat nine.

The show is invitation only. The invitation is the token. Four steps, then you are on the list.

Catewalk · Issue 01

You are invited

  1. 01
    Get a wallet

    Install Phantom. Write the recovery phrase on paper and keep it to yourself.

  2. 02
    Add SOL

    Buy SOL on an exchange and send it to your wallet. Keep a little for fees.

  3. 03
    Swap for $CATEWALK

    Use pump.fun or Jupiter, and check the contract address below character by character.

  4. 04
    Take your seat

    Row A, seat nine. Flash is allowed. She stopped counting at four hundred and twelve.

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Perfume advertisement: Ninette lies on black satin beside a faceted glass bottle with a gold cap

P.164 — Advertisement

Neuf

Eau de Catewalk · the scent of a new season

No kitten was spritzed. Keep fragrance away from your pets.

On her the ribbon, obviously · Bottle invented · Top note the top of her head