Critics have slammed singer Katy Perry for being racist after she dressed up as a geisha while performing "Unconditionally" at the 2013 American Music Awards. The 29-year-old pop superstar was attacked for using the traditional Japanese entertainers in her fashion-first performance but Katy's stylist, Johnny Wujek, explains the geisha-inspired outfit and performance at the awards show on Sunday night.

The reason why Katy Perry is turning Japanese is because she simply digs the fashion, according to the E!Online report. "Katy and I both love Japan. The people are so kind, there's so much there visually. Just walking around in Japan, you feel something. We wanted to try and encompass that in the performance somehow, almost a tribute," Johnny Wujek, the creative director of America's Next Top Model, explained without commenting on the criticism.

When asked about what Katy Perry plans to wear for the 2014 Grammy Awards, the fashion stylist was tight-lipped. "I can't reveal that. We like to be inventive and more in the moment basing our looks off of recent events, experiences, or current inspirations," Johnny Wujek stated.

Aside from Cosmopolitan indicating that Katy Perry's geisha outfit was a "perhaps-mistaken mishmash of Chinese and Japanese" fashion style, the other criticisms has been focused on the idea that the singer was indeed paying tribute but to something shameful. "In short, this was a full-barreled technicolor assault on a quarter-millennium-old set of traditions that would've given any self-respecting denizen of Kyoto's Gion District a massive fatal heart attack," Jeff Yang of Wall Street Journal wrote.

It appears this is not really the first time Katy Perry has been slammed with racism towards the Japanese culture. During her appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last June, Katy ignited the controversy after she talked about the Japanese race and stated "I'm so obsessed with you [Japanese race] I want to skin you and wear you like Versace!"

Posts from social media sites accused that the "Firework" singer was mocking the Asian culture but Ms Perry explained that she became familiar with the Japanese culture after her family took in some lodgers while she was growing up.

In Daily Mail report, Katy's fans in Japan could be giving their nod of approval as the singer embraces their culture. Ms Perry was able to visit the country earlier this November and she even posted on Twitter an image of herself wearing the kimono next to some genuine Japanese geishas.

"One of these things is not like the other," the singer wrote on her Twitter account @katyperry as a caption to the image. Obviously, Katy Perry was the one not like the other things since she did not wear the famous porcelain figurine makeup of a geisha.

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