For Immediate Release: New York, NY, February 2007 -- It couple Elisabeta and Nikolae Petrescu, lovingly dubbed ‘The Cat People’, took the social scene by storm during New York Fashion Week. Toting their well-behaved feline from runway show tents to afterparty taverns and photographed with fashion’s heavy hitters, the socialite couple and their elusive appeal couldn’t be missed.
The pair were often sighted emerging from their white, 1954 Rolls Royce and an entourage composed of a publicist, a lavish petal pusher, a bodyguard/Tai Chi specialist, a falsetto flute player, and a cat governess. Due to their heavily accented speech and jello-like grasp of the English language, they did not verbally communicate with fashion’s finest. Given this bourgeoise impediment, their arrival at fashion parades and events perpetuated gross, negligent rumor-mongering and speculation. Their infamous reputation reached a fever pitch at the close of Fashion Week, as they celebrated with an exclusive Soho Grand Penthouse Soiree for their fellow comrade, Waris Ahluwalia, returning from a three-month filming expedition in India.
In a way to introduce a lighthearted contrast to a gloveless hand on the corner of 5th avenue and a subzero Manhattan sidewalk during New York Fashion Week, Trovata Creative Director John Whitledge draped double faced wools, wide wale corduroy, and sumptuous cashmere on the decadent Romanian cat crusaders as they paraded up, down, and around town revealing Trovata’s Fall 2007 Collection.
