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Katy Perry's 'Vogue' Spread
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Leaving pop novelty and broken hearts behind her, Katy Perry has grown into her formidable talent.
San Ysidro Ranch is a ritzy hideaway in the wine country of Southern California, where major celebrities cluster. The Montecito foothills rearing up behind the property make a spectacular backdrop for all the charming heritage buildings, and on a pretty day it is a nice place to wait for someone who is stuck in traffic in Los Angeles. So, when Katy Perry roars in like a Bond girl in her low, growly, bright-red Maserati GranCabrio Fendi and hurls it into a parking space, it’s like the beginning of a movie.
Candy-covered, camouflaged, carouseled. . . Katy Perry’s best performance looks.
I adore a capable woman who can drive like James Bond (especially since she has to chauffeur me around all day). Why did she buy a Maserati? Perry says, “Because I didn’t like the Porsche. And it’s rented.” She is in a girly-girl’s flower-print dress in shades of mauve—is it vintage? Or is it a vintage-inspired knockoff of a 1960s dress? She shakes her head: “Ach! It’s just a . . . little dress I found,” she says. “One of those little dresses everyone has. That you just—throw on. And you’re dressed.” And are these Repetto ballet shoes on her feet? In the same bright orange as her nail polish? “Yes, ma’am. Easy to pop on and off.” And is that thick mass of lush raven hair all hers? She laughs. “Probably straight off the airplane from India.”
Don’t miss Katy Perry’s best red-carpet looks.
As the incarnation of a global megabrand, she is a boss, a manager, and she acts like one: She already has today’s itinerary tightly planned for us. Right now, we’ll take a brief walk in the garden where the mountains loom so she can point out the high trail she’ll be hiking tomorrow (she does a two-hour hike at least twice a week). Then she will drive us to lunch at La Super-Rica in Santa Barbara, her favorite taqueria. Oprah has sung its praises, she says, as has Martha Stewart; it is “superquaint and cute and inexpensive.”
Video: Katy Perry reveals her big-night beauty routine.
Following lunch, she has arranged a private tour of the lovely cactus gardens of Lotusland, an important property she wants more people to know about. She has homes in New York and Los Angeles, but Santa Barbara is Perry’s hometown; I find it very sweet that she is acting in a semi-ambassadorial capacity for Southern California with one of her busy hands.
Her other hand is in the midst of making her third pop album (her others have made her $45 million, according to Forbes), but she won’t talk about it: She even took back the words “halfway through,” which is where she’d first said the album was, “because that’s too much of a jumping-off point.” She’s careful. Does she never get fazed by the massive machine she runs? “Of course I get fazed,” she says patiently. “And when I am in between records, sometimes I doubt myself. I’ll be like: Did I just get lucky, or did I mass-manipulate the world into thinking that seven songs were worth a number-one position? And then I go back into the studio and I start writing, and the true essential oil of who I am comes bubbling back up and reminds me that it’s always been inside of me, that nobody can take this away no matter what comment anyone makes. It’s going to be there because it’s what I was born with and it’s what I’ve worked on my whole life.”
Today is Saturday: Sunday she is off to Cancún to publicize the latest Smurfs movie (she is the voice of Smurfette. She’d like to flex her acting muscles further); next week she will be photographed for Vogue—the results are on these pages; then she goes to New York City to launch her third perfume. After Purr and Meow! she chose Killer Queen (great name: picked because as a girl she adored Queen and thought Freddie Mercury “really knew what a woman was”). She will attend Vogue’s gala evening at the Met celebrating the years of punk. Does she know what she’ll be wearing? “Dolce & Gabbana,” she says, bright-eyed. “And a crown.” She is also just back from a tryout field trip as a Unicef goodwill ambassador, which is not an easy gig. Asked to choose between two areas of need, she picked Madagascar, which had more focus on women and babies, rather than Rwanda (more focus on HIV/AIDS). The absolute poverty stunned her, which must be the point of an induction trip: to see how resilient the celebrity is. From my viewing of official footage of Perry fist-bumping shy kids, I’d say she is gutsy enough for her powerful public image to be useful to Unicef.
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http://www.vogue.com/magazine/articl...vogue-cover/#1
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. Looks better on Katy though.
