With some acts over the past years such as Paul McCartney, The Who, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, you really only get one thing when you watch the Super Bowl Halftime Show: Music! But, when you bring forth a performer like Katy Perry, music at times comes secondary to the visual atmosphere she brings to the stage.
While Katy looked absolutely glamorous/sexy in her Jeremy Scott-designed wardrobe during Super Bowl XLIX’s Half Time production, it was the chess-piece costumes of Katy’s backing talent and dancers, mixed in with cleverly-designed giant tree, shark and beach-ball puppets (created by 3-time Emmy Award winning costume designer Marina Toybina who also designed for Katy’s Prismatic tour) that stole the show.
While we thought we had seen it all on Katy’s recent world tour, the boundaries of what can be reached in such a short amount of time in front of a live audience was succeeded with flying colors. Combining fashion and music has always gone hand-in-hand, but when you bring together the creative and fascinating minds of Katy Perry, Jeremy Scott, Marina Toybina, Hamish Hamilton, Johnny Wujek and others on the XLIX team, the sky is the limit, and if this Super Bowl show is to be remembered for anything, it is the journey these individuals took us on… Oh, and having Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliot there too didn’t hurt one bit!