Offbeat | Katy Perry gives shoutout to assistants during performance

At an exclusive and intimate New York Fashion Week party, Katy Perry dedicated a song not to fabulous designers or picture-perfect models, but to their assistants.
Perry closed her 30-minute set at the Plaza Hotel this week with her inspirational and anthemic No. 1 hit, “Firework.” Before singing the tune, she told the audience: “I always feel like an outcast or a black sheep because I’m no longer sample size.”
Then she said to the few hundred lively guests, “This next song is a song I want you to remember when you’re going about your day and you rip your pants, you have two Band-­Aids fall off of the back of your heel, you’re sweating, there’s coffee all over your blouse. I’m talking about all the assistants here. And you feel, maybe, like a little plastic bag.”
“We’re all human,” she said. “We all start somewhere.”
Perry performed at a party by Harper’s Bazaar honoring women in fashion.
“Ladies, make some noise if you’re in the house,” she yelled. “Fashion Week’s almost over — you can drink as much as you want.”