AP – MTV has set the dates for next year’s MTV Movie and Video Music Awards.

‘I saw Kanye after, and I told him it was amazing,’ Ciara tells MTV News via phone from Paris Fashion Week.

West unveils womenswear collection before star-packed crowd, including Lindsay Lohan, Jared Leto and Ciara. By James Montgomery Kanye West at his Paris Fashion Week debut Photo: Antonio de Moraes Barros/ WireImage Kanye West made his Paris Fashion Week debut Saturday night (October 1), launching a womenswear line with a high-profile show that was sexy, swaggering and, of course, incredibly stylish. Before an audience that included fashion heavyweights like Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour, designer Alexander Wang and photographer Terry Richardson — not to mention celebs like Lindsay Lohan, Jared Leto and Ciara — West paraded a host of different looks, from daringly cut dresses and color-block pants to body-hugging tracksuits and high-end hoodies.

Big K.R.I.T. produced the song and is featured on the chorus.

What better way to kick off this year’s host-less MTV Video Music Awards than Lady Gaga’s tough-guy alter-ego: pompadour-sporting, cigarette-smoking, beer-swilling Joe Calderone opening the show with a monologue and performance of Gaga’s latest single “You and I” joined by a group of Calderone-clone backup dancers and a guest guitar accompaniment by Led Zeppelin’s Brian May?

What better way to kick off this year’s host-less MTV Video Music Awards than Lady Gaga’s tough-guy alter-ego: pompadour-sporting, cigarette-smoking, beer-swilling Joe Calderone opening the show with a monologue and performance of Gaga’s latest single “You and I” joined by a group of Calderone-clone backup dancers and a guest guitar accompaniment by Led Zeppelin’s Brian May?

MTV has long since moved away from being a “music channel.”

As expected, the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards will feature a tribute to late British chanteuse Amy Winehouse.

Celebs walk the black carpet at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards!

Celebs walk the black carpet at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards!