{"id":48636,"date":"2026-05-06T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=48636"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:45:41","slug":"why-katy-perry-wore-a-mask-to-met-gala-as-divisive-look-sparks-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=48636","title":{"rendered":"Why Katy Perry wore a mask to Met Gala as divisive look sparks confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Katy Perry never seems far away from the headlines recently, be that traveling to space, smooching with boyfriend former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, or even locking horns in a court conflict with a pair of nuns.It&#8217;s been a busy few years for the pop superstar.Perry has, without a doubt, tattooed herself into pop music history, thanks to classics like &#8216;California Gurls,&#8217; &#8216;Firework,&#8217; and &#8216;Teenage Dream,&#8217; but some of her fashion choices over the years have raised eyebrows.In 2013, she raised quite a few eyebrows after opening the American Music Awards by styling herself as a Geisha girl for a performance of &#8216;Unconditionally&#8217;, with many left asking whether the outfit choice was racist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, she was in hot water again over a shoe design from her Katy Perry Collection line.The shoes, which came as sandals and loafers, were black and designed with a face featuring prominent red lips.After the internet raged over the design choices, which allegedly resembled &#8216;blackface&#8217;, they were swiftly removed from the collection.And her fashion choices are once again under the spotlight, with the internet divided on what last night&#8217;s Met Gala outfit was all about.Perry returned to the Met Gala for the first time since 2022, wearing a white mask with a silver face plate. The headpiece, made by Miodrag Guberinic, linked up perfectly with her custom Stella McCartney outfit. But it has left many wondering, why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy Perry never seems far away from the headlines recently, be that traveling to space, smooching with boyfriend former Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, or even locking horns&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":26,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48638,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48636\/revisions\/48638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}