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 on Wednesday 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."

Oscar de la Renta closed day six of New York fashion week with a stunning display of timeless elegance that eclipsed the likes of Vera Wang, Tory Burch and Serena Williams.

There were more than 70 events celebrating spring/summer 2016 on day six of the bi-annual style fest as New York sweltered in the September heat.

A Cincinnati film commission has announced that singer and actress Mariah Carey will be filming a Christmas movie in the region.

WCPO-TV (http://bit.ly/1OTRcDI ) reports the Greater Cincinnati Film Commission said Tuesday the singer and actress is set to star in "Melody & Mistletoe" in Cincinnati starting in October.

In just two short years, rising New York designer Rosie Assoulin has established her own label and won plaudits for sophisticated yet sensuous clothes that sacrifice nothing to comfort.

The 30-year-old young mother from Brooklyn, who spent just months at formal fashion school, first started experimenting with fabric and design on her grandmother's sewing machine at the tender age of 13.

Country music star Hank Williams and jazz trumpeter Chet Baker biopics, as well as a new Keith Richards documentary headlined at the Toronto film festival Sunday.

Hoping to follow in the footsteps of Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line," a whopping eight music biopics and docs were scheduled for release in Toronto this week.

Betty Cantrell, representing the southern U.S. state of Georgia, was crowned Miss America 2016 late Sunday.

Cantrell, overcome by emotion, received the crown from last year's winner, Kira Kazantsev of New York, then waved to the tune of the pageant's theme song "There she is, Miss America."

"Game Of Thrones" is the Emmy Awards front-runner after winning a leading eight technical achievement awards.

The HBO fantasy saga was honored at Saturday's creative arts Emmys, the precursor to the main Sept. 20 ceremony, in categories including special visual effects and casting.

A film about the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, "99 Homes" by Ramin Bahrani, was awarded the Grand Prize at France's Deauville American Film Festival in Normandy on Saturday. 

Part social drama, part thriller, the film centers on a young father who is evicted from his home after it is foreclosed and then agrees to work for the very real estate broker responsible for his troubles.

"The Martian" has landed.

The Ridley Scott, Matt Damon 3-D space adventure premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, where critics and audiences cheered Scott's latest venture into science fiction as a return to form for the director. "The Martian," adapted from the best-selling Andy Weir novel, stars Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars by his crew.

Two people died when a plane carrying crew members from a film starring Tom Cruise crashed in Colombia, aviation authorities and Universal Pictures said.

The crew had just wrapped up production on the upcoming Doug Liman film "Mena," when it went down on Friday while returning to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin.