Katy Perry gave a photo shoot for Moschino and showed her perfect physique. Katy Perry is letting us see a sliver of her naked body in her latest Moschino ads and, well, it’s pretty hot! The star, who announced herself as the new face of the brand via Instagram on June 10, gave fans another glimpse of her campaign for Jeremy Scott’s fall-winter 2015 collection, including one snap where she sports a graffiti-printed coat. The new ads also feature her Kris Jenner-inspired pixie cut wig, as well as Moschino handbags and accessories.
Another shot the singer posted this morning features a purple and orange get-up replete with a quilted nylon backpack and oval-shaped sunnies. And if you got ’em, flaunt ’em: Katy shows her ripped midriff in a third Moschino ensemble, this one featuring bold primary colors and a decidedly ’90s baseball cap.
Dark Horse hitmaker Katy has been treating us to a never-ending flurry of snaps – and these are the sexiest yet. We always knew Katy Perry had a killer body. But the Hot n Cold star has sent temperatures soaring sky-high with her latest campaign pictures for Moschino.
Katy’s sexy silhouette is visible as she stands completely naked with a coat draped across her body. The Roar singer showed she’s looking more fierce than ever as she bared a lot of sideboob and gave fans a cheeky look at her bum.
The dark-haired beauty is rocking a new cropped ‘do which fans have been quick to point out makes her look a lot like Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner. But Katy gave her look a cute, modern edge by teaming her barely-there ensemble with a multi-coloured chain handbag and a pair of gold court shoes.
In another snap, the 30-year-old completely covers up in a massive blue coat, over-the-knee boots and a pair of yellow tights. She sexed up her look by revealing her naked midriff. The Black Horse singer made the big announcement on her Instagram account last week that she is the new face of Moschino and shared a stunning snap from her first shoot for the brand.
Posing in a gold bra with a LOT of bling hanging down, the star is seen raising her head towards the camera as she holds a stylish denim jacket over her shoulders. With a hand on her hip and her body leaning forward, Katy is oozing attitude and sass in the stunning snap.
In between two black heart emojis, she wrote: “THE FACE OF MOSCHINO”. Meanwhile, the pop princess has denied she will be releasing a revenge track aimed at Taylor Swift.
The rumour mill went into overdrive earlier this week when it was reported that Katy had recorded a brand new song called “1984” in a dig at her rival after her track Bad Blood. But a spokesperson for the star has quashed the rumours.
“Katy Perrys managers at Direct Management Group confirm that this story is completely false,” a rep for Perry at Universal told Billboard. “Katy Perry was not involved in writing, singing, recording or registering this song.” Katy, who was born in 1984, has remained silent during the furore around Taylor’s public dig at her.
Katheryn Elizabeth “Katy” Hudson better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She had limited exposure to secular music during her childhood and pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson in 2001. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music. After being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, Perry signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007.
Perry rose to fame in 2008 with the release of the singles “I Kissed a Girl” which had attention-grabbing and somewhat controversial lyrics and “Hot n Cold” from her second album, a pop rock record titled One of the Boys. Her third album, Teenage Dream, ventured into disco, and contained the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles “California Gurls”, “Teenage Dream”, “Firework”, “E.T.”, and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” as well as the number-three single “The One That Got Away”. The album became the first by a female artist to produce five number-one Billboard Hot 100 songs, and the second overall after Michael Jackson’s album Bad. In March 2012, she reissued the album as Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, which produced the chart-topping singles “Part of Me” and “Wide Awake”.
Her fourth album, Prism, was released in 2013, and is influenced by pop and dance. It has spawned the number-one singles “Roar” and “Dark Horse”. Her songwriting is mostly done in collaboration with others, especially Dr. Luke and Max Martin, and in songs such as “Firework” and “Roar” she stresses themes of self-empowerment and self-esteem.
Perry is known for an idiosyncratic and fun-based sense of personal fashion that incorporates bright colors and food-based themes. Her concert performances feature elaborate stagings and costumes.
Perry has received many awards, including three Guinness World Records, and been included in the Forbes list of “Top-Earning Women In Music” for 2011, 2012, and 2013. Throughout her career, she has sold 11 million albums and 81 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time. Perry has also made celebrity endorsements and released perfumes Purr, Meow!, and Killer Queen. In July 2012, she released an autobiographical documentary titled Katy Perry: Part of Me, which concentrated on her life as a touring artist and the dissolution of her brief marriage to English actor and comedian Russell Brand in the early 2010s.
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Maurice Keith Hudson and Mary Christine Perry. Her parents are born again Christians, each having turned to God after a “wild youth”. Perry has Portuguese, German, Irish, and English ancestry. Through her mother, she is a niece of film director and producer Frank Perry (19301995). She has a younger brother named David (born 1988), who is a singer, and an older sister, Angela. From ages 3 to 11, Perry often moved across the country as her parents set up churches before settling again in Santa Barbara. Growing up, she attended religious schools and camps, including Paradise Valley Christian School in Arizona and Santa arbara Christian School in California during her elementary years. Her family struggled inancially,sometimes using food stamps and eating from the food bank intended to feed the congregation at her parents’ church.
Growing up, Perry and her siblings were not allowed to eat Lucky Charms as the term “luck” reminded their mother of Lucifer, and had to call deviled eggs “angeled eggs”. Perry primarily listened to gospel music, as secular music was generally discouraged in the family’s home. She discovered popular music through CDs she sneaked from her friends.While not strictly identifying as religious, Perry has stated, “I pray all the time for self-control, for humility.” Following her sister Angela, Perry began singing by practicing with her sister’s cassette tapes. She performed the tracks in front of their parents, who suggested she take vocal lessons. She began training at age 9,and was incorporated into her parents’ ministry, singing in church from ages 9 to 17. At 13, Perry was given her first guitar for her birthday, and publicly performed songs she wrote.She tried to “be a bit like the typical Californian girl” while growing up, and started roller skating, skateboarding, and surfing as a teenager. David described her as a tomboy during her adolescence. She took dancing lessons and learned how to swing, Lindy Hop, and jitterbug.
During her freshman year of high school, Perry completed her General Educational Development (GED) requirements at age 15, and left Dos Pueblos High School to pursue a musical career. She briefly studied Italian opera at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Her singing caught the attention of rock artists Steve Thomas and Jennifer Knapp from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to improve her writing skills. In Nashville, she started recording demos and learned how to write songs and play guitar.
After signing with Red Hill Records, Perry recorded her debut album, a gospel record titled Katy Hudson. The album was released on March 6, 2001, and she joined The Strangely Normal Tour to support it. The album was commercially unsuccessful, selling an estimated 200 copies before the label ceased operations in December.
Transitioning from gospel music to secular music, Perry started writing songs with producer Glen Ballard, and moved to Los Angeles at age 17. In 2003, she briefly performed as Katheryn Perry to avoid confusion with actress Kate Hudson. She later adopted the stage name Katy Perry, using her mother’s maiden name.
In 2004, Perry signed to Ballard’s label, Java, which was then affiliated with The Island Def Jam Music Group. She began work on a solo record, but the record was shelved after Java was dropped. Ballard then introduced Perry to Tim Devine, an a&r executive at Columbia Records, and she was signed as a solo artist. Over the course of the next two years, Perry wrote and recorded material for her Columbia debut, and worked with songwriters including Desmond Child, Greg Wells, Butch Walker, Scott Cutler/Anne Previn, The Matrix, Kara DioGuardi, and Max Martin and Dr. Luke. In addition, after Devine suggested they become a “real group,” she recorded with the Matrix. Perry was dropped from Columbia in 2006 as her record neared completion. After she was dropped from Columbia, Perry worked at an independent A&R company called Taxi Music.
Perry had minor success prior to her breakthrough. One of the songs she had recorded for her album with Ballard, “Simple”, was featured on the soundtrack to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She provided backing vocals on Mick Jagger’s song “Old Habits Die Hard”, which won the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.In September 2004, Blender named Perry “The Next Big Thing”. She recorded background vocals on P.O.D.’s 2005 single “Goodbye for Now” and was featured at the end of its music video in 2006. That year, Perry also appeared in the music video for “Learn to Fly” by Carbon Leaf, and played the love interest of her then-boyfriend, Gym Class Heroes lead singer Travie McCoy, in the band’s music video for “Cupid’s Chokehold”.
After Columbia dropped Perry, Angelica Cob-Baehler, then a publicity executive at the label, brought Perry’s demos to Virgin Records chairman Jason Flom. Flom was convinced that she could be a breakthrough star and she was signed to Capitol Records in April 2007. The label arranged for her to once again work with Dr. Luke in order to add an “undeniable smash” to her existing material. Perry and Dr. Luke co-wrote the songs “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot n Cold” for her second album One of the Boys. A campaign was started with the November 2007 release of the video to “Ur So Gay”, aimed at introducing her to the music market. A digital EP led by “Ur So Gay” was later released to create interest. Madonna helped publicize the song by praising the track on the JohnJay & Rich radio show in April 2008, stating it was her “favorite song”. In March 2008, Perry made a cameo appearance as a club singer in the Wildfire episode “Life’s Too Short”, and appeared as herself during a photo shoot in June on The Young and the Restless for the show’s magazine Restless Style.
Perry released her first single with Capital, “I Kissed a Girl”, on April 28, 2008,as the lead single from One of the Boys. The first station to pick up the song was WRVW in Nashville, who were inundated with enthusiastic calls the first three days they played it. The track reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. One of the Boys, released on June 17, garnered mixed critical reviews and reached number nine on the U.S. Billboard 200. “Hot n Cold” was released in September and became the album’s second successful single, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100, while topping charts in Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, and Austria. Later singles “Thinking of You” and “Waking Up in Vegas” were released in 2009 and reached the top 30 of the Hot 100.
After finishing the Warped Tour 2008, Perry embarked on her first headlining world tour, the Hello Katy Tour, from January 23, 2009, to November 2009. On August 4, 2009, she performed as opening act for one date of the band No Doubt’s Summer Tour 2009. The Matrix’s self-titled debut album, which Perry had recorded with the band in 2004, was released as a result of her solo success. She requested holding off the release until the fourth single of One of the Boys had been commissioned, but The Matrix was released onto iTunes on January 27, 2009, prior to the release of fourth single “Waking Up in Vegas”.
On July 22, 2009, Perry recorded a live album titled MTV Unplugged, which featured acoustic performances of five tracks from One of the Boys, as well as two new songs. It was released on November 17, 2009. Perry also appeared on two singles with other artists; she was featured on a remix of Colorado-based band 3OH!3’s song “Starstrukk” in September 2009, and on a duet with Timbaland entitled “If We Ever Meet Again”, from his album Shock Value II, in January 2010. Guinness World Records recognized her in its 2010 edition as the “Best Start on the U.S. Digital Chart by a Female Artist”, for digital single sales of over two million copies.
In response to speculation that her parents opposed her music and career, Perry told MTV that they had no problems with her success. After her relationship with McCoy ended in December 2008, Perry met her future husband Russell Brand in the summer of 2009 while filming a cameo appearance for his film Get Him to the Greek. Her scene, in which the two kiss, does not appear in the film. She began dating Brand after meeting him again that September at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The couple became engaged on December 31, 2009, while vacationing in Rajasthan, India.
After serving as a guest judge on American Idol, Perry released “California Gurls” featuring rapper Snoop Dogg on May 7, 2010. The song was the lead single from her third studio album, Teenage Dream, and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June. She also served as a guest judge on The X Factor UK later that month before releasing the album’s second single, “Teenage Dream”, in July. “Teenage Dream” reached number one on Billboard in September. Released on August 24, 2010, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. It received mixed reviews from music critics, and has since sold 5.7 million copies globally. In October, “Firework” was released as the album’s third single. It became the album’s third consecutive number one on the Hot 100 on December 8, 2010. The song has since been certified 9× Platinum in the United States.
A remixed version of “E.T.” featuring rapper Kanye West was released as the fourth single from Teenage Dream on February 16, 2011. It topped the Hot 100 chart for five non-consecutive weeks, making Teenage Dream the ninth album in history to produce four number one singles on the Hot 100. “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” followed as the fifth single in June, and Perry became the first female artist to achieve five number-one Hot 100 songs from one album when the single topped that chart on August 17, and the second artist after Michael Jackson with his 1987 album Bad. On September 7, she set a new record by becoming the first artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100.
In October, “The One That Got Away” was released as the album’s sixth single.The song peaked at number three on the Hot 100 and number two in Canada. On February 13, 2012, Capitol released the lead single from Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, “Part of Me”, which debuted at number one on the Hot 100 and became Perry’s seventh single overall to top the chart. Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection was released on March 23. “Wide Awake” was released on May 22 as the re-release second single, peaking at number two on the Hot 100 and number one in Canada and New Zealand. On January 5, she was named the sixth best-selling digital artist in the United States, with sales of 37.6 million units according to Nielsen SoundScan. That month, she became the first artist to have four songs sell over 5 million digital units.
From February 20, 2011, to January 22, 2012, Perry embarked on the California Dreams Tour in support of Teenage Dream, grossing over $59 million globally. On September 23, 2011, she performed on the opening day of the 2011 Rock in Rio festival along with Elton John, Claudia Leitte, and Rihanna. In September 2010, Perry was scheduled to appear on the 41st-season premiere of Sesame Street. After her scene was uploaded to YouTube, viewers criticized Perry’s exposed cleavage. Four days before the scheduled airing, Sesame Workshop announced that the segment would not air on television, but would still be available to watch online. Perry mocked the controversy shortly afterwards on Saturday Night Live, where she was a musical guest and wore an Elmo-themed shirt showing large amounts of cleavage during one skit.
In December 2010, Perry played Moe Szyslak’s girlfriend in the live-action segment from a Christmas episode of The Simpsons titled “The Fight Before Christmas”. In February 2011, she made a guest appearance on the How I Met Your Mother episode “Oh Honey”, playing a woman known as Honey. The role won her the People’s Choice Award for Favorite TV Guest Star in January 2012. She made her film debut in the 3D family motion picture The Smurfs as Smurfette on July 29, 2011. The film was a financial success worldwide, while critics gave mostly negative reviews. She hosted Saturday Night Live on December 10, 2011, with Robyn as the episode’s musical guest. Perry’s work on the episode received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised her performance in the episode’s digital short featuring her and Andy Samberg. In March 2012, she guest starred as a prison security guard named Rikki on the Raising Hope episode “Single White Female Role Model”. On July 5, 2012, Perry’s autobiographical documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me was released to theaters through Paramount Pictures. The film received positive reviews and grossed $32.7 million worldwide at the box office.
Perry began to venture into business when she endorsed her first fragrance, Purr, in November 2010. Her second fragrance, Meow!, was released in December 2011. Both perfumes were released through Nordstrom department stores. Electronic Arts recruited her to promote their new expansion pack for The Sims 3: Showtime, before releasing a separate stuff pack featuring Perry-inspired furniture, outfits, and hairstyles, titled The Sims 3: Katy Perry’s Sweet Treats, in June 2012. The following month, she became the spokesperson and ambassador for Popchips and made an investment in the company. She was ranked third on the 2011 Forbes list of “Top-Earning Women In Music” with earnings of $44 million, and fifth on their 2012 list with $45 million. Billboard dubbed her as their “Woman of the Year” for 2012.
She married Russell Brand on October 23, 2010, in a traditional Hindu ceremony near the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan. Brand announced on December 30, 2011, that they were divorcing after 14 months of marriage. Perry later stated that conflicting career schedules and his desire to have children before she was ready led to the end of their marriage, and that he never spoke to her again after sending a text message that he was divorcing her. However, in the documentary film BRAND: A Second Coming which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2015, it was revealed that Brand divorced Perry due to her rising fame, commercial success and reluctance to engage in activism.She was initially distraught over their divorce, and said that she contemplated suicide. After the marriage ended in 2012, Perry began a relationship with singer John Mayer that August.
In November 2012, Perry began work on her fourth album, Prism. She told Billboard, “I know exactly the record I want to make next. I know the artwork, the coloring and the tone” and “I even know what type of tour I’m doing next. I’ll be very pleased if the vision I have in my head becomes a reality.” Although she told L’Uomo Vogue in June 2012 that she planned to have “darker elements” in Prism following the end of her marriage, Perry revealed to MTV during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards that she changed the album’s direction after periods of self-reflection. She commented “I felt very prismatic”, which inspired the album’s name. “Roar” was released as the lead single from Prism on August 10, 2013. It was promoted at the MTV Video Music Awards and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. “Unconditionally” was released as the second single from Prism on October 16, 2013, and peaked at number 14 in the United States.
Prism was released on October 18, 2013, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Four days later, Perry performed the songs from the album at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles. “Dark Horse” was released as the album’s third single on December 17, 2013, and became her ninth number-one single on January 29, 2014. In 2014, “Birthday” and “This Is How We Do” followed as the album’s fourth and fifth singles, and reached the top 25 on the Hot 100. Prior to ending her relationship with Mayer in February 2014, she recorded and co-wrote a duet with him titled “Who You Love” for his album Paradise Valley.
The song was released on August 12, 2013. Perry began her third headlining tour, The Prismatic World Tour, on May 7, 2014. It started in United Kingdom and will continue through North America, Oceania, Europe and Asia until May 2015. On November 23, 2014, NFL announced that Perry would perform at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show on February 1, 2015, with special guests Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott. Perry’s performance garnered 118.5 million viewers in the United States, becoming the most watched and highest rated show in Super Bowl history. The viewership was higher than the game itself, which was viewed by an audience of 114.4 million.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) ranked her fifth on the list of Top Global Recording Artists of 2013. On June 26, 2014, she was declared the Top Certified Digital Artist Ever by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for certified sales of 72 million digital singles in the United States. In May 2014, a portrait of Perry by painter Mark Ryden was featured in his exhibition “The Gay 90s”, and shown at the Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. Along with several other artists, she also recorded a
cover version of the song “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)” on a limited-edition concept album to accompany the exhibition. That month, a portrait of Perry by artist Will Cotton was included in the United States National Portrait Gallery.
Aside from her music career, Perry reprised her role as Smurfette in The Smurfs 2, which was released in theaters on July 31, 2013. Like its predecessor, The Smurfs 2 was a financial success but was panned by critics. In March 2014, she made a guest appearance playing herself in the season finale of the Kroll Show. Killer Queen was released as her third fragrance in August 2013 through Coty, Inc. In January 2014, she became a guest curator of Madonna’s Art for Freedom initiative. On June 17, 2014, Perry announced that she had founded her own record label under Capitol Records, titled Metamorphosis Music. Ferras was the first artist to get signed to her label, and Perry served as an executive producer on his self-titled EP. She also recorded a duet with him on the EP, titled “Legends Never Die”. She ranked seventh on the 2013 Forbes list for “Top-Earning Women In Music” with $39 million earned. and fifth on their 2014 list with $40 million.
Perry is considered a sex symbol; GQ labelled her a “full-on male fantasy”, while Elle described her body “as though sketched by a teenage boy”. Vice described her as a “‘serious’ popstar/woman/sex symbol”. She was placed at number one on the Maxim Hot 100 in 2010 as the “most beautiful woman in the world”, with editor Joe Levy describing her as a “triple no quadruple kind of hot”. Men’s Health readers voted her the “sexiest woman of 2013”. In November 2010, Perry told Harper’s Bazaar that she was proud of and satisfied with her figure.
Perry’s fashion often incorporates humor, bright colors, and food-related themes such as her trademark spinning peppermint swirl dress. Vogue described her as “never exactly one to shy away from the outrageous or the extreme in any realm”, while Glamour named her the “queen of quirk”. In February 2009, Perry told Seventeen that her fashion style was “a bit of a concoction of different things” and stated she enjoyed humor in her clothing. She has also described herself as having “multipersonality disorder” for fashion. Perry lists Gwen Stefani, Shirley Manson, Chloë Sevigny, Daphne Guinness, Natalie Portman, and the fictional character Lolita as her style icons.
On social media, Perry surpassed Justin Bieber as the most followed person on Twitter in November 2013. In January 2014, she became the first person to gain 50 million followers on the site, and won the 2015 Guinness World Record for most Twitter followers. Forbes writer Dorothy Pomerantz commended Perry on her social media usage, saying “Perry makes excellent use of Twitter, talking to her fans and sharing funny photos and videos in a way that makes them all feel like Perry is their best buddy.” Keith Caulfield of
Billboard stated that she is “the rare celebrity who seems to have enormous popularity but genuine ground-level interaction with her adoring KatyCats
Throughout her career, Perry has won five American Music Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, fourteen People’s Choice Awards, and three Guinness World Records. In September 2012, Billboard dubbed her the “Woman of the Year”.From May 2010 to September 2011, she spent a record-breaking total of 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. Teenage Dream became the first album by a female artist to produce five number-one Billboard singles, and the second album overall after Michael Jackson’s Bad. She has accumulated a total of nine number-one singles on the Hot 100, her most recent being “Dark Horse”. On June 9, 2015, her music video for “Dark Horse” became the first video by a female artist to reach 1 billion views on Vevo.
Perry was declared the Top Global Female Recording Artist of 2013 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). According to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the second best-selling digital singles artist in the United States, with certified sales of 79 million digital singles including on-demand streaming. Her songs “Firework”, “E.T.”, “California Gurls”, “Hot n Cold”, “Roar”, and “Dark Horse” have each sold over 5 million digital copies. As of November 2013, Perry has sold 11 million albums and 81 million singles worldwide.
