Katy Perry in Versace at Sydney Premiere

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Katy Perry attends the ‘Katy Perry: Part Of Me’ Australian Premiere in Sydney in a Versace dress paired with Christian Louboutin sandals.

Versace Fall 2012 Collection

Christian Louboutin ‘Just Picks’ Pump

 

 

[Photo Credit: Getty Images, vogue.com, christianlouboutin.com]

  • TropiCarla

    Will those Louboutins never die?!  

    Dress on Katie is much nicer than the runway version though.

    – TropicalStormEmma

  • Funkykatt

    I don’t think that’s her dress. Or maybe it’s not my dress. It’s not mine nor is it hers. I think she needs to stick with the mini-skirts. 

    • Cathy S

       Definitely not her dress. And dear god, kill those shoes.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/C5T2QPOAWOBDRHFL2MFAV7KQCY Tracy

    Those shoes are dead to me. If I never saw them on another RC, it would be too soon. I’m sure Target’s knocking them off already.  And while KP’s hair and makeup look great, the top of the dress creates a saggy under-boob effect that could have been avoided with tape.  Of course the hem length makes her look squatty, too.  I suspect that we’re looking at a passive-aggressive or bored stylist situation.

  • Funkykatt

    Yeah, the shoes. Awful and too often. And too expensive. 

  • BazoDee

    Oh Geez with those damn shoes!!!! Really?
    The dress is the wrong length, it stumpifies her. Her chest is too big to pull off this strapless cut. This is pretty much a “girl that is not your dress” + “make it stop with those damn shoes” her hair and makeup are flawless though.

  • schadenfreudelicious

    in this case busty is better…Katy wins…

  • Indovina

    In the first picture, the dress bears a striking resemblance to burlap. It works better on Katy (much though it pains me ever to speak well of her) than on the model, for the most part, because it suits her body-shape better – but the length is awkward.

    The shoes are absolutely horrid – in general and in specific.

  • patticake1601

    Gold dress with silver shoes?  Is it ok to wear mixed metals like that? No, really I’m asking…..
     

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1208138556 Sara Munoz Munoz

      I wouldn’t do it. But I have no idea what I’m doing.

    • sweetestsith

       Theoretically, yes, but you need just the right shades. Its kinda like gray and yellow together, but, well, metallic. My example is dumb, but I think its the general idea behind gold/silver. I personally like it best when the tones are similar, I think Katy is doing it pretty well with the colder gold/warmer silver, and I also like it with distressed/aged darker gold and silver. Bright, christmas gold + chrome silver is a big no however – super tacky!

    • MilaXX

       yeah mixing metals is fine

    • alyce1213

      It’s often BETTER to mix metals, to avoid a matchy-matchy out-of-a-factory boxed look. But should done carefully and thoughtfully.

      • patticake1601

        That’s what I thought. Gold shoes would have looked awful with her dress. I actually like her combination I just wasn’t sure if it was “ok”.  I am wondering though if Katy wasn’t freezing here. My parents tell me it has been a very cold winter for them in Sydney. thanks!

  • NurseEllen

    She needs earrings, the hem should be raised, and I’m tired of those shoes.  Other than that, not bad at all!

  • http://twitter.com/WhoraRabinowitz Rizzle

    I don’t get those Versace bangs

  • sashaychante

    NOT THOSE SHOES AGAIN

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L6FKGKUXWF6QSWWYAHJZYKKI3E Adrian

    KILL THOSE SHOES WITH FIRE!

  • LesYeuxHiboux

    I just want to give her a hug. Where is our bubbly drag queen of yore? She is aaaaalmost working that dress, but her mammarial gifts and the overlay combine to form that unflattering shelf-line. The hair looks lovely (I have no problem with the over-the-shoulder mermaid style, it’s my go-to since I do not have a face for ponytails). I wish this had a giant piece of fruit or more sequins somehow worked into it, it’s so subdued it’s positively worrisome!

  • gabbilevy

    Look at the size of her head versus the size of her feet. That bobblehead effect? Thank a bad photographer. Thus, I have no idea if the proportions of this dress worked, since in general, Katy looks completely out of proportion in these photographs. I mean, I can see her kneecaps, and I’m pretty sure the lower half of her legs aren’t that short compared to the rest of her body.

    In any case, this is relatively simple and demure for her. Can’t say she looks bad, but she’s not wow-ing me.

  • formerlyAnon

    Dress is o.k., nothing triumphant about it because the proportions are fine, but not super flattering. I can’t tell if the odd boobs-on-a-shelf effect is a wrinkling, not-quite-right fit in the dress or an optical illusion caused by shadow & photography. 

    No reason to inflict those shoes on us unless there’s an incentive program: stylists are getting 5K bonuses every time the shoes are photographed on a celeb’s feet.

  • http://www.facebook.com/D.D.D.Dino Dino Bonačić

    my name is dino, and i like those shoes. 

    • understateddiva

       Those shoes, to me, are the equivalent of the song “Hey Ya” by Outkast.  Yes, they’re overplayed now, but in a few years, we might be like, “ya know, those Loubs were kinda fierce.”

  • GillianHolroyd

    Just want to reach over and yank that thing up. 

    Needs dress stays/better foundation garment/tape. When you’re going to wear a strapless, jump up and down a few times and raise your arms and wave them over your head. Then see how it sets. It’s not brain surgery, stylists.

  • PaulaBerman

    At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I think this dress would look a lot better if it were hiked up several inches on her bust. Katy is a lot more buxom than the model, which I think actually looks great, except for the hang low.

    ~~Emma’s Stoned

  • http://twitter.com/lenabena_ Elena

    Normal for her. Although: boob shelf.

  • Lina_bee

    The dress is surprisingly good, considering my usual feelings about Versace, although the lack of bust support doesn’t do KP any favors. I still hate these shoes (NO MORE PLASTIC SHOES!). Better earrings might have been nice.

  • MilaXX

    It’s not that great of a dress so I guess she’s making it look as good as possible. Not one of her better looks, but there’s not a lot to work with here; a mediocre dress and the ubiquitous Louboutins.

  • quiltrx

    I’m in the minority, it looks like–I think the dress looks pretty good on her.  Could have used some cantilevering in the boobular area, though.  And those “I can see ALL your toes” shoes…dammit!  Her hair looks really pretty, BTW.

    Did anyone else expect her to wear something MUCH flashier to her own premiere?

  • guest2visits

    I think she looks pretty great in this, even the shoes. It’s the first dress I think I’ve seen her in that doesn’t look like a costume
    or a parody of real clothes.
    I wonder if anyone really owns these 1,500 dollar shoes. As far as I know; ALL clear plastics (especially flexible) will start to yellow
    after close contact with skin, it’s a chemical reaction. They can never be made clear again.

  • http://twitter.com/PhDKnitter marlie

    I love this! I think she looks SO much more glamorous than she usually does! She’s sexy and stylish, but it’s not costume-y. And I kinda like the shoes. 

    • http://twitter.com/SparklyCasanova UglyCasanova

      Yes.  This is the first time I think KP looks great, usually she has this caricature she feels like she needs to upheld, not today. 

  • Imasewsure

    It’s boring without the edgy styling and we all know about those damn shoes… maybe they were part of a Grammy/Emmy/Espy/Oscar/Teen Choice, etc gift bag? Everyone has them and there is no other logical reason…

  • http://eclectictsunami.blogspot.com/ Cassie

    Pretty, but the dress is a little too bunchy. Better tailoring next time, Katy.

    The indigo hair is starting to grow on me. I think she’s just getting better at matching it properly.

  • Sara__B

    I’m still surprised by this more refined, less costumey Katy. She could use more support built in to the dress, but at least she’s contained! (I don’t mind the PVC shoes as long as I don’t have to wear them!)

  • boweryboy

    Those shoes need to be burned.

    The bodice of the dress fits her poorly.

  • VicksieDo

    Classy, I really like this look.

  • LinXGUA

    Ok. Look the first photo. There is this very strange thing with the size of her legs. From her knees down to her feet. I know models are perfect weirdos but … Katy, that’s crazy. You are beautiful but this dress is hitting on your knees and giving you weird leg proportions. Or maybe … is this a desfavorable angle for a photo and i’m seeing things? Is this an optic illusion? What is this?

  • TieDye64

    PLEASE kill the fucking shoes already. Other than that I think she’s mostly working the dress.

  • crash1212

    I really like this look. The dress is making her look long and lean and I’m in awe of the infrastructure – those aren’t the tiniest of boobage to keep hoisted in a strapless fashion. Kudos to under pinnings. Also, I might just be tired, and as much as I hate the concept of plastic shoes, I think she’s rocking them and they look good with this dress. All in all – this is a win.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=751285857 Sally Brownson

    Whoo-ee, I think she looks great- I don’t mind the Louboutins as much as everyone else apparently :P

  • RzYoung

    She definitely looks better in the dress than the model does, she fills it out really nicely and makes it alive. The shoes need to be microwaved.

  • lizajane1776

    I don’t hate it, at all.
    For the first time, those shoes don’t bug, other than knowing that they are “those shoes”.
    Rather liking the mixed metallic.

  • sockandaphone

    love the dress, shoes are totally wrong and ugly

  • janetjb

    Not her usual look, but I like it.  I’m sure I can find a flame thrower somewhere to take care of those shoes.

  • MzzPants

    That dress is not woman enough to handle Katy’s girls.  Get the boning, stat!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman

    Not a bad dress, but the girls could use more support.  As for the shoes, even though I hate them, I don’t think they coordinate with the dress well either.  

  • Nariya

    Shelf boob. Boob shelf. Either. Both.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Julie-Chase/731391326 Julie Chase

    She looks pretty but the shoes are hideous and aren’t even close to fitting her.

  • marilyn

    She looks great, in fact normal great.  Although, the dress is a smidge too tight and the skirt is a smidge too long.  It makes her look short.  If the skirt had been at or above the knee, her legs would have looked great.  However, I am not complaining, because her hair is passably normal and we can see her beauty, which she works very diligently to hide.  Good show!

  • reddhouston

    she looks better then the model

  • holdmewhileimnaked

    i am now convinced CLoub cant sell em so he’s giving em away. cos those have gotta be both the worst & the most e’erpresent style of shoes bought by people who can afford better & who also have people who know better hustling for them to acquire for free what they can well afford on the western planet today.

    dress is great, however. & i hate to tell you but i do know: this is more or less how the entertainment industry of the last near half century defines voluptuous. this or, at most, maybe–maybe–someone like beyoncé. do i think this is good right or fair? you gotta be kidding. i think it’s horrible. but i know it’s true.

    • Indovina

      I’m not quite sure about that – I mean that it is getting better. And by not quite sure, I mean I disagree completely but don’t want to be rude about it.

      Katy Perry being more or less how the entertainment industry defines voluptuous is as horrible as her music, but I don’t think it matters who best fits the media criteria.

      But that’s largely because I don’t think the entertainment industry even having a concept of “voluptuous” is, or can be, given the nature of our society, a good thing. Voluptuousness in the entertainment industry is, was, and will for the foreseeable future be, about men – at least when it isn’t bread and circuses. The decline of ’50s style curvy stars, for instance, is only partly related to the youth and thin-centric shift in focus of the latter ’60s – it is also a by-product of that other 60s phenomenon, the Sexual Revolution. Society became less coy about things and left a lot less to the (as relevant to this discussion, heterosexual male) imagination – to the detriment of a phenomenon that relied upon coyness and imagination (i.e., Twiggy didn’t kill the Blonde Bombshell: Deepthroat did). Which brings up a whole host of issues well beyond the nature of this forum. I digress.

      In any case, I also think that the appearance of things getting better is illusory, or, if not illusory, misleading. For one thing, there are economic factors relevant to the issue (it sounds a little strange, but there is apparently a correlation between the state of the economy and the media cachet of curviness). More than that, though, any such change – if genuine – is, to make an ancien régime analogy, more the birth of the noblesse de robe than it is the Revolution. The problem with the media’s standard of body-type and beauty is that it has one – not which one or how many. And if this apparent change isn’t genuine, we’re back to bread and circuses.

      There are a lot more issues I wanted to address, but this is already too long.

      I still hate her shoes.

  • kikisayshi

    Cute but fits weird on the boobs
     

  • joolyz

    I think she looks absolutely gorgeous. Love the hair color, dress is absolutely gorgeous on her, and i’m sorry, i think i’m the only one, but i love those Louboutins. sexy as hell.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Erin-Hines/620149309 Erin Hines

    I am sooooo sick of those shoes! Is there one starlet in Hollywood who hasn’t whored them down a carpet?? 

  • SophieCollier

    Kind of understated for her, isn’t it?  You would think that at HER premier, she’d pull out all the stops.  

  • bluefish

    Wish the dress were at least 3 inches shorter.  That length on any leg is almost never flattering.   Love the dress — and she looks great in jet black hair.

  • melanie0866

    Hem it above the knee and it would be perfect.

    • Judy_J

      Exactly what I was thinking.