Fashionista types are speculating that a chance meeting between Cat Power and Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld will lead to some kind of relationship between the singer and the fashion house, with rumour suggesting that she may appear in a Chanel campaign at some point.
Lagerfeld told Fashionweekdaily: "I saw her in New York in front of the Mercer Hotel and she was smoking and I said, 'Only a woman - she - can look glamorous while smoking."
Meanwhile, Power (real name Chan Marshall, of course) told Women's Wear Daily: "I was outside waiting, sitting on a pile of Louis Vuitton luggage, drinking water, with an apple and a cigarette in my hand, my cell phone, oh, and two guitars and out comes Karl. He walks up, looks at me and says, 'Only a woman can look glamorous when smoking.' And I lowered my glasses and pointed to [the bags under my] eyes and said, 'With these'?"
The singer is set to play at London's Roundhouse on 1 Nov.