Oh Look, Christmas Came Early
LatestAbove is a gif of real shoes. Real, live shoes you can buy. Real, live shoes that come via Katy Perry, cost $169, and should be the perfect footwear statement if mama meets Jesus tonight. Just take a second to let that sink in.
Perry hawked these chukkas (official name: Novelty Garland Ankle Boots), as well as other styles from her shoe line like scented jelly thong sandals, circus-inspired looks, and open-toed shoes with octagon heels, Wednesday night on QVC. It was an hour of the sort of shameless tackiness that Perry has gleefully embraced throughout her career on what Perry described as “a very iconic channel.” Perry repeatedly said that appearing on QVC was her “lifelong dream.” I can relate, but only vaguely because the Novelty Garland Ankle Boots feel like a spontaneous hallucination, like something that flashes before your eyes during a salvia trip or just before you die.
It’s always hard to determine just how much input a celeb has into the brand she has attached her name to. I assume, for example, that Britney Spears’s way of developing a new fragrance involves showing up at a factory and getting sprayed with a new scent on the wrist, to which she responds with a salute and an “‘Ello guvnah!,” and bam! A new fragrance is born.