Katy Perry Serves Summer Style in Watermelon Mules & Staud Checks

At 5’7″ (170.2 cm) with a US shoe size 8, Katy Perry has built a footwear history around statement shoes, from designer heels to the playful styles created for her own label. At a Macy’s appearance in New York City on May 8, 2019, she made that connection especially literal by wearing watermelon-themed mules from Katy Perry Collections with a coordinating red-and-white Staud outfit.

The fruit-inspired shoes fit naturally into the playful aesthetic of Katy Perry Collections, the footwear line Perry launched in 2017. The brand became known for turning familiar objects, food motifs, and pop-art ideas into conversation-starting shoes, from novelty heels to printed pumps and surreal designs.

The Macy’s appearance came two days after another example of Perry’s taste for fashion with a sense of humor: at the 2019 Met Gala, themed “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” she wore Moschino’s illuminated chandelier dress before later changing into a hamburger costume.

Katy Perry wears a red-and-white checked Staud ensemble while promoting her Katy Perry Collections footwear at Macy’s in New York City on May 8, 2019 (Credit: Derrick Salters / WENN)

Katy Perry Coordinates Staud Checks With Her Watermelon Shoes

For the shoe launch, Perry wore Staud’s sleeveless Aperol tunic dress with matching cropped Kokomo pants. The red-and-white checks continued from the mock-neck tunic to the trousers, while a wide glossy red belt defined the waist.

Rather than breaking up the coordinated look with neutral footwear, Perry carried the same palette down to her feet with her watermelon Picolo mules.

Katy Perry coordinates her red-and-white Staud Aperol tunic and Kokomo pants with watermelon-themed Picolo mules from Katy Perry Collections

The Picolo Mules Turn a Watermelon Slice Into a Statement Heel

The standout detail was on her feet. Perry’s Picolo mules were designed to resemble watermelon slices, with red uppers dotted with black seed-like embellishments, white-and-metallic-gold piping, red-and-white gingham trim, open toes, and chunky transparent block heels.

The clear construction adds another distinctive element to the novelty design. While Perry’s heels are chunky rather than barely there, they belong to the broader family of transparent shoes made with materials such as Lucite and Perspex.

Katy Perry’s Picolo watermelon mules feature red fruit-inspired uppers, black seed details, metallic-gold piping, gingham trim, and chunky transparent heels

Novelty Shoes Are a Recurring Theme in Katy Perry’s Footwear

The deliberately literal watermelon motif wasn’t an isolated experiment. Perry’s footwear line repeatedly played with recognizable objects and visual jokes, including car-inspired heels, Rubik’s Cube heels, cigar heels, and other sculptural designs.

Perry also wore the idea herself. At the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, her Katy Perry Collections Isobella booties created the illusion of white bobby socks worn with black Mary Janes.

Her later designer-shoe choices show that her interest in unusual heel construction extends beyond her own label. At Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball, she paired a silver dress with transparent Amina Muaddi Holli Glass Sling heels, another clear-footwear moment but with a much sleeker silhouette.

Katy Perry’s Foot Tattoos Add Another Fruit Detail

The Picolo mules’ open design also left Perry’s foot and ankle tattoos visible. Her small cherry-blossom design could be seen near her right ankle, while a smiling strawberry tattoo decorated the inside of her left ankle.

The strawberry is particularly fitting beside a pair of watermelon shoes: both turn fruit imagery into small but immediately recognizable elements of Perry’s visual style.

A close-up of Katy Perry’s Picolo mules shows their watermelon motif, clear block heels, and gingham trim alongside her smiling strawberry ankle tattoo

A Closer Look at Katy Perry’s Picolo Watermelon Mules

The product view makes the shoe’s construction easier to see. Curved red panels form the watermelon flesh, tiny black embellishments mimic seeds, and white and metallic-gold piping suggests the rind. Red-and-white gingham around the sole and slingback adds another playful pattern, while the substantial transparent heel keeps the focus on the fruit-inspired upper.

Katy Perry Collections’ Picolo mules combine watermelon-inspired red uppers and black seed details with metallic-gold piping, gingham trim, and transparent block heels

What Happened to Katy Perry Collections?

The Picolo watermelon mules capture what made Katy Perry Collections distinctive: Perry took familiar objects, food, color, and humor and turned them into shoes designed to be noticed. The watermelon motif was less about creating a conventional red mule than making the footwear itself part of the joke.

That playful approach continued for years, but the future of Katy Perry Collections is now unclear. As of September 2026, the Katy Perry Collections website is no longer operating as an active online shoe store. The former shopping site has been reduced to a basic contact page, with no products or collections available to browse.

The brand’s social presence also appears to have gone quiet. Its Instagram activity extends into October 2025, but there have been no apparent new product updates there since then. Together with the disappearance of the online store, that suggests Katy Perry Collections is currently inactive, although no formal announcement confirming that the brand has permanently closed has been identified.

That makes designs such as the Picolo mules an interesting snapshot of the label’s most recognizable era: colorful, literal, and deliberately playful shoes that mirrored Perry’s own taste for fashion with a sense of humor.