Couture Dogs of New York
by Paul Nathan and Nadine Rubin Nathan
Pelluceo
In New York City, even the dogs can't be seen looking like mutts.
"Couture Dogs," photographer Paul Nathan's new coffee-table book, captures bedazzled chihuahuas and Yorkshire terriers — the fashion plates of a special breed of dog owners who don't mind spending a small fortune on a four-pawed wardrobe.
"They are eccentric and colorful and into fashion," said Nathan, a New Zealander who lives with his wife and their baby in Williamsburg. Nathan, whose previous book was about Brooklyn hipsters and their tattoos, started off the project by shooting owners who look like their dogs on the street. That eventually lead to meeting people in the dog-couture culture.
Some of the doggie outfits cost as much as $5,000. But for owner Grace Forster, it's worth every penny to clothe her two beloved Yorkshire terriers, Portia, 7, and Rosie, 6.
"They're family. I won't call them my 'fur-children,' but I do call them my 'yorkie girls,' " she said.
Forster has a closet in her Gramercy Park apartment crammed with designer outfits worth thousands of dollars — because she doesn't like "the girls" to repeat looks on the town.
"You don't want to be seen in the same thing, just like we don't want to be seen in the same cocktail dress," Forster said.
"I always love dressing my dogs, and they never go out without something on. If they didn't like wearing the clothes, I wouldn't do it."
It's not unusual for her to splurge $1,000 to $2,000 a year on their one-of-a-kind couture costumes.
"Sometimes I will buy a dress and I will want the designer to coordinate an outfit for the girls and vice versa."
Forster and her two Yorkies have a very busy social calendar, attending animal-welfare charity events in the evening at least once a week and appearing on the reality TV show, "Doggie Moms."
"It's very much an integral part of my life," said the retired UN staffer. Last year, Forster, Portia and Rosie were guests at a $250,000 over-the-top, record-breaking "puptials" — a pet wedding held in July.
The pooches Baby Hope Diamond, a teacup-sized Coton de Tulear, and Chilly Pasternak, a tie-dyed poodle, were united in holy "muttrimony" in front of nearly 300 guests at the ritzy Essex House hotel across from Central Park.
Forster said she didn't mind that the $200 a ticket took a bite out of her pocket, because the money went to the Humane Society of New York.
Besides, they got their pictures taken. "It was worth it," she said.
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