Katy Perry

Katy Perry wearing Bristols 6 Nippies under her Marchesa dress while hosting the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin on November 5th. She is covering up with the Like a Virgin nippies (white lace hearts).

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Katy Perry

Pop Singer Katy Perry will team up with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo to write songs. Buzznet broke the story after speaking with Cuomo. Weezer’s seventh album, titled Raditude is to be released in a few weeks. His collaboration with Perry will be on her sophomore album, on which Perry will also record with the likes of All-American Rejects and Lil Wayne.

Perry and Cuomo have a mutual like for the Beach Boys.

Perry and Russell Brand have a mutual like for each other, it appears. They were seen kissing in Los Angeles last week at a party. This was after having spent time together in the most romantic city in the world, Paris during Fashion Week. And a stream of Brand’s exes also took a moment to give their opinion of the Brand-Perry match. Perry, the daughter of evangelical Christian parents, is hoping to introduce Brand to her folks soon.

The couple’s favorite song is “Whatever Happens, I Love You,” by Steven Morrissey. Brand is having the chorus, “Cold loving prose, we stole each other’s clothes/But when all is said and done, it’s you I love” tattooed onto an unspecified part of his body.

Quirky songstress Katy Perry chats with Karl Lagerfeld after his show at Paris Fashion Week in an exclusive interview for Elle.com. It’s certainly a rare chance to peek into the personality of one of the world’s most esteemed designers. Is he intimidating? Yes, but there is a certain warmth about his demeanor, even as he corrects Katy when she expresses her adoration for the fabric, not metal embellishment on a particular dress. The two discuss music and fashion, and we learn fun facts like what he listened to as he got dressed this morning and what song he feels describes himself best (by none other than Lily Allen, of course). His response to the requisite “if you could trade places with any designer” question is a careful mix of smug satisfaction and pure respect. Oh, and he makes jokes too! Click here to see the full interview for yourself.

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It’s been approximately 20 years since Jean Paul Gaultier “launched” his rocket cone bra for Madonna’s Blonde Ambition tour, so perhaps it was time for a rehash. For whatever reason, the cone bra featured prominently in Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Spring 2010 ready to wear collection in Paris last week. He did it up in style, too, with wasp-waisted silhouettes complete with girdles and garters.

The pointy bras were a central feature in overalls that were made like a bustier on top. It also appeared in a white tux, and a stretchy peach corset-suspenders combination. All 40 of Gaultier’s models marched out in a lingerie collection that included yet more cone-bras, stockings, corsets, and French knickers. Of course, being Jean-Paul Gaultier we would only have been shocked at prim, buttoned up “career separates” that annihilated rather than celebrated the female form.

Paris, France. Jean Paul Gaultier spring/ summer 2010 show held at the company’s quarters at 325 Rue Saint Martin in Paris is attended by the following personalities wearing Jean Paul Gaultier looks.

Janet Jackson wears beige silk taffeta trench coat

Rihanna wears charcoal wool gabardine bondage jacket

Rihanna, Jean Paul Gaultier and Katy Perry

Katy Perry wears black silk taffeta cross straps halter dress with sheer paneled hemline

Dita Von Teese wears crepe/ velvet/ leather black dress

The looks are from Mr. Gaultier ready-to-wear collection.

Image credit: wwd.com and G. Vejvoda p/o JPGaultier

Katy Perry

The advertising theme for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards is West Side Story. The awards show airs Sept. 13. Katy Perry released a picture from the recent photo shoot promoting the awards show. Perry, along with VMA nominees Taylor Swift, Ne-Yo, Cobra Starship and host Russell Brand do a modern version of the famous West Side Story tune “Tonight.” Each of the artists is filming the tune separately, and the clips will be melded together through the magic of television.

Meanwhile, Perry’s career is still in high gear. Her One of the Boys CD was responsible for two number one hit songs, “Hot N Cold” and “Waking Up in Vegas,” this after having been signed and dropped by two labels until she realized great success with One of the Boys. Perry has said that she thinks the record companies didn’t like how headstrong she was, but once they let her have control over her CD, it all worked out great.

Though she as a unique fashion sense – one more thing about her that fans love – she plans to concentrate on music for the time being. In other Katy Perry news, her cat, Kitty Purry was recently nominated for Best Celebrity Pet for the MTV Teen Choice Awards. Purry didn’t win, but the competition was quite formidable including the winner: President Barack Obama’s new dog, Bo.

Katy Perry recently told the Boston Herald that she loves living life on her own terms, and that her parents are OK with it. Perry grew up in a strict, Christian household where MTV was banned, and even words like “devil” were forbidden. But she says, her parents did what they believed was right, telling the Herald, “But generally my parents were doing as good of a job as I think most parents can do.”

She went from releasing a gospel album at 16 to moving out at 17 and beginning her career as a pop singer. She describes the making of album “One of the Boys” as “an open diary. A lot of it’s about boys. A lot of it’s about relationships, getting crazy with your friends and trying new things.” For her next album, Perry plans more dance-worthy songs.

Perry is also a fashion icon to young women, who watch her every outfit with great interest. A few days ago she was photographed in New York wearing a tight fitting denim playsuit while doing some shopping at Kid Robot in Soho. She had earlier left a tattoo parlor with a bandage over her ankle. She later revealed the new tattoo, of a smiling cartoon strawberry.

As a way to throw people off, she also revealed a tattoo on her décolletage reading “Josh Grobin,” a misspelled reference to show and concert crooner Josh Groban. That tattoo was a fake.

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Singing star Katy Perry recently made an appearance at the new H&M clothing store in Tokyo’s Harajuku district. She was promoting a new line of AIDS awareness clothing.

She has been busy elsewhere, recently doing a photo shoot for Complex magazine. In the series of photos, Perry is dressed in a dark, edgy S&M style, with lots of black and lace-up corseting. She recently told reporters, “It’s a bit of a darker side of me, a little S&M.

“Though I did have to hang from a cage, which could have easily gone wrong with the five-inch heels I was wearing.”

But fortunately there were no dangerous wardrobe malfunctions, just plenty of sexy, dark photos.

In the feature, Perry tells the magazine that she has “a soft spot for musicians, a guy who can write a song or say how he feels and put it into a song, and is super poetic.”

She also tells what she does to keep her, um, physical assets from sagging: daily push-ups.

“It’s about doing push-ups. You know that, right?” she said in the feature.

Perry also dished that flirting is great, but one-night stands, she says, are “disgusting.”

Katy Perry

Katy Perry appeared at the new H&M branch in Harajuku, Tokyo, to promote the company’s new line of AIDS awareness clothes – including a bodysuit designed by the musician herself. Katy glittered in a futuristic silver sequined dress – but had to pull down the hem line while she was seated to avoid flashing photographers.

Katy Perry

Pop star Katy Perry has an interview and photo spread in the April issue of Esquire magazine, and she sets a lot of things straight.

For one, she thinks that she won’t be an icon like Madonna or Gwen Stefani, but that’s fine with her. And, after breaking up with Gym Class Heroes front man Travis McCoy, she’s not quite ready to jump back into the dating pool again. But maybe she’d fancy another fellow musician. She said to Esquire, “I have a soft spot for musicians.”

As for Perry’s unique fashion sense, she describes her style as “Lucille Ball meets Bob Mackie.” But the fashion shoot for Esquire is a far cry from dressing up as an egg, as she has done in the past. The sultry photos show off Perry’s curvaceous figure in a series of hot looking outfits that threaten to set the pages on fire.

As for speculation about her love life, Perry acknowledges that she was out in a group that included Paris Hilton’s ex, Benji Madden. She tells Esquire, “Benji is a nice young fellow, but my heart really belongs to Kitty Purry,” her cat.