Here are some photos of Katy Perry at the 12th Annual UNICEF Snowflake Ball. Katy was being honored by UNICEF because after just a few years as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, she’s already raised $1 million for the non-profit. For the event, Katy once again chose a Marchesa dress, and I have no idea why. Katy is a big deal and she probably has tons of great designers vying to dress her. But she keeps going to Marchesa. While this gown isn’t the worst Marchesa piece I’ve ever seen, it still gives off a cheap vibe, like it’s a prom dress from the mall. No disrespect to mall-bought prom dresses, but I expect more from Katy.
Katy’s date for the evening was Orlando Bloom, her boyfriend of some-odd eleven months. While there were rumors that Orly and Katy had split in the weeks following the election, they’re still happening. They spent Thanksgiving together. And now Entertainment Tonight is trying to make it sound like they’re engaged! ET got some exclusive photos of Katy and Orlando out to dinner a few nights ago – go here to see. Katy looks like she’s wearing a giant canary diamond ring on her engagement hand. But in these photos from the UNICEF Snowflake Ball, the ring is nowhere to be seen. Hm.
As for Katy’s honor, she was given the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award at this event. The award was presented to her by Hillary Clinton! Katy was #WithHer-ing for the Clinton campaign for more than a year, performing at the DNC and several major Clinton rallies. It was nice of Hillary Clinton to come out and support Katy. Hillary told the crowd:
“On a personal level, I cannot tell you how delighted I am to be here to help celebrate a global megastar. I have seen Katy’s commitment to the causes she believes in firsthand. I’ve gotten to spend time with her and I know how deeply she cares about making our world a better place. She is serious about understanding the complex problems we face and pulling people together to solve them. We need champions like Katy now more than ever: her passion, her energy and, yes, her voice, louder than a lion.”
Perry received the award after raising more than a $1 Million for UNICEF and serving as an ambassador for the global nonprofit for the past few years. Perry tossed the glowing compliments right back at the former Secretary of State with her acceptance speech: “I’ve always had a voice – a singing voice – but I’ve never had a voice like I’ve had before. Hillary has lit that voice inside of me, and that light will never go out, it will continue to get brighter and brighter and brighter. Thank you Hillary.”
This honestly has me tearing up. GAH. Who would have thought that a Katy Perry story would have me all emotional? But it’s so painful to think of all of these young women who really believed in Hillary Clinton and female empowerment. It’s painful to think of what all of those young women have been shown about the reality of the world with Donald Trump’s victory.
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
That dress manages to be too much and not enough at the same time. There is absolutely no support for her boobs.
Hillary! Pantsuit Nation!
#pantsuitnationforever
That one side is doing leftie no favors.
That is the problem with asymmetrical straps and large boobs. You can’t hoist them evenly.
I do kind of like the dress other than that tho… goddamnit. This is why I need supervision when I buy fancy going out things, sequins and shine have to much of a hold on me.
yes! #pantsuitnationforever !!!
also, that dress makes Katy Perry look lopsided
At first I thought that it was super boobalicious- but then- she has big round breasts. Should she hide them or smash them? She is supported, just not in the trendy way. Trends come and go regarding “support”. My mother wore a literal cone bra. Two giant cones! That was the fashion. But guess what? These are her natural shape- and so damn what? They’re beautiful btw!
Kaiser, I’m tearing up too!! I feel like any time Hillary speaks post-election, I’m going to cry. Her words are just so powerful, even more so in the face of what we’ve been witnessing over the past 3 weeks. Hillary IS a symbol of female empowerment, and always will be. She is an icon, of hair, pantsuits, and feminism. No damned electoral college can take that away from her or from us.
Cosign! #foreverwithher
2 million popular votes above the orange fascist says this is correct. I kept thinking if she was the President- general harassment of females would become a thing of the past. I hinged all my hopes on her winning. Have to admit I’m a tortured soul these days. Can’t wait until I get a real grip on how to handle what’s happening to our country.
This is a not a great look. Benefit of the doubt, maybe it doesn’t photograph well, but the flowers look like a Micheal’s faux floral table display was glue gunned to her straps. Maybe in a different color?
On a separate note my favorite thing since the apocalypse of last month is photos of Hillary in the woods walking, warms my cold angry heart. God I love her for continuing on and attending and supporting events/causes like this in spite of everything. She is an icon.
#pantsuitnation
That’s an absolutely hideous and singularly bad dress (proof of it that it just won’t photograph well from any angle/light) , It makes it seem like she is growing a skin Fungus… All shadiness aside ( Her BF, this dress, The fact that I generally don’t like her at all whatsoever) GOOD FOR HER for lending her voice to an absolutely worthwhile cause! Good for her and for Hillary out here doing her thing
That dress is totally cheap mall prom, but pretty much what I expect from Katy’s fashion choices.
But that’s awesome she has done so much for Unicef, and I’m happy to see her continuing to speak on female empowerment. I take issue with a lot of her performances and all, but she’s not afraid to speak up, and we need everyone to do that now.
I cry every day. Especially when I think about the younger girls. And how Trump firmly reinstated the glass ceiling with GUSTO. Sickening. I’ve been a lawyer for last 16 years and really saw some light at end of tunnel…. alas, no.
I am at a sales and marketing conference. I had a long chat with my boss about the lack of diversity and women in top leadership positions- I am the only female sales director in our division. Women get promoted in marketing or HR, but the skills that are required to be successful in sales are seen as bitchy and/or bossy in women ( but just leadership skills in men). I only got where I am because a white man in his fifties identified me, helped me develop, and championed me repeatedly. We’re a Fortune 50 company and it is NOT ok. I find it incredibly frustrating to have to bring this to people’s attention-no, isn’t ok that twelve white, 45-55 year old men just got on the stage together and congratulated each other as senior leads. F–k that. HRC for life.
#pantsuitnationbaby
I teared up also. I didn’t mind her gown. She’s a popstar, not a glamorous movie star nor couture model. She’s a little flashy.
I don’t think it has yet sunk in for many young woman just starting out that sexism is still present and very real in America. They will find out once they start trying to climb up the ladder of their careers. Electing an unfit mafia “macho” p*ssy grabbing con man who insults everyone over a qualified woman maligned for her years of service exposed this big time. Sexism doesn’t just come from men, women (especially white women) also distrust women in power. We are blind to our own brand of sexism in the West but criticize women in Saudi Arabia, for example, for not fighting hard enough to get a driver’s license.
Yes to everything you said.
I’m 22, and it was devastating when Hillary conceded. I sobbed. I could barely stand up straight. To know that my country would rather have THIS man, this disgusting piece of incompetent, unqualified human garbage as their leader, over the most qualified candidate in history, she who spent her ENTIRE adult life preparing for this job… for reasons, many of which stem back to the fact that she’s an unapologetically ambitious woman… It hurts. It hurt like hell. It’s a horrible reality.
But I’ve realized that I am just now awakening to the world of anger, fear, gut-wrenching unfairness, and uncertainty that many people– POC, LGBTQ people– have lived in for their entire lives. And that’s my motivation to keep fighting, and fight harder than I ever knew I could. Because this does not have to be the end of the world, and I’ll be damned if I let it be.
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Now I’m getting teary. Bless you for your courage and self-reflection. We need people like you in this world.
amen sister.
So true. That this incredibly bright hard working women lost to this dreadful, unqualified, boorish know nothing makes me sad and so mad at the same time. I’ve really wondered how my fellow Americans could knowingly cast a ballot for this man who has bragged about sexual assault, called groups of people rapists, demeaned women’s looks and made fun of someone with a disability. And don’t get me started on going from the brilliance and empathy of President Obama to this creature. I loved what Katy Perry said about finding a voice and I only hope that the electorate realizes how none of our hard fought gains as women and for POC are set in stone and how easily it can all be taken away.
Do celebrities wear Marchesa because they genuinely think that the dresses look good, or because they want to stay on Harvey Weinsteins good side?
Shambles, you raised another good point. From my cozy perspective as a white woman, I have experienced sexism and worse. However, what I am feeling now is perhaps a tiny inkling of what POC and others have experienced throughout their lives in their own communities. When a qualified woman loses to an abnormal, unqualified, unfit man it is clear how undervalued I am and where I stand in society. It makes me feel both rage and immense sadness.
All of this.
If you’d told me eight or even five years ago that I’d have mad respect for Katy Perry, I’d have laughed in your face. But I’ve never been so happy to eat my words, and I have SO MUCH respect for Katy right now – for all her faults, her heart is in the right place and I admire her commitment to good causes.
And I’m still not over how the American electoral setup resulted in the most qualified candidate you guys have ever had for President, LOSING an election in which she won 2 million more votes than her incompetent, corrupt, p*sy-grabbing rival. Like just….. HOW? I mean, I lived a certain reality every day as a brown woman in a mostly-white society, but the extremes to which people are willing to go to judge and discredit women, make me physically ill. The old maxim really is true – you have to work twice as hard to be considered half as good. If even that.
She has no idea how to dress for her figure. This dress would only work on someone with a model type body – tall, thin, small boobs.
I’d like to see them married and settled and pop out some babies!
Best of wishes to the happy couple 🙂