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Discussion: Beyoncé Vs. Rihanna - Better Fashion Icon?
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Originally posted by Slayley
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Can the Navy explain how Rihanna is a better Fashion Icon than Beyoncé, When her 2 Fashion Shows flopped and her Vogue covers being some of the lowest selling!
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 Ya'll really have to just let this one go.
Bey is fashionable she has memorable looks ( most of them being her stage costumes or videos outfits), she has been praised by many designers, she graced the cover of plenty of magazines, BUT she simply has not impacted the fashion industry or helped start/popularize trends in ways Rihanna, Madonna, Gaga have.
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Originally posted by #ADOU
Can the Navy explain how Rihanna is a better Fashion Icon than Beyoncé, When her 2 Fashion Shows flopped and her Vogue covers being some of the lowest selling!
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The Navy doesn't need to explain anything.
Ask Anna Wintour and the rest of the fashion world, they'll tell you. 
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Originally posted by #ADOU
http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/07/stop...hion-icon.html
But let’s give her a little more credit. A Dolce & Gabanna dress sold out after she wore it to view the Kara Walker exhibit earlier this summer, as did this $140 Topshop dress. Her “Bonnie and Clyde”–era embrace of Manolo Blahnik’s stiletto Timbs contributed to the shoe's popularity and the zillion sell-out, but her collaboration with H&M was wildly successful (and was better received than Rihanna’s River Island collection...
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bey and h&m wasn't a collaborative move, she was just the face of the clothing line. rih actually designed clothes for river island. and rih trumps all over bey in this aspect 
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Originally posted by Rihinvention
Rihanna.
Beyonce is beautiful, and her fashion choices in recent years have been amazing after some really questionable, cheesy outfits from her Destiny's Child days and early solo career. But that was the 2000s so of course some of her fashion choices were going to be cheesy. And let's not pretend like Rihanna didn't have them too. Her Music of the Sun era outfits were just as tacky.
The thing is though, the term "fashion icon" doesn't imply "looks good at events" and "makes good red carpet choices" - it literally means a fashion icon. Someone who inspires how other women dress, and in Rihanna's case, even how some men dress considering her style can be quite masculine (baggy jeans, timbalands, flannels, basketball jerseys, menswear from runway shows).
Beyonce looks gorgeous at events and her stage costumes work amazingly with her shows, but I mean, Rihanna and her stylist Mel Ottenberg are single-handedly deciding how an entire generation of girls dress. Their decisions are literally becoming generation-defining. Wearing a basketball jersey as a dress and pairing it with Manolo Blahnik sandals? Wearing a really expensive dress and pairing it with Nike sneakers? People will look at that 30 years from now and say "that is so '10s!" They'll have "2010s" themed 21sts and girls will be wearing the styles Rihanna started.
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This is so well said.
A big reason why Rihanna wears the fashion icon label well is because she does indeed look like a model, and like a good model, she can pull off a dizzying array of looks. Fashion icons don’t always strive to look impeccable and Beyonce’s brand is based on being impeccable. So, there’s not going to be any walking out the house with a doobie wrap or wearing a t-shirt and over the knee boots to the zoo because conventional wisdom says not to do these things, but Rihanna not only does it, She does it with aplomb and makes it look chic.
She really is the Kate Moss/Linda Evangelista/Alexa Chung of pop.
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Originally posted by #ADOU
Can the Navy explain how Rihanna is a better Fashion Icon than Beyoncé, When her 2 Fashion Shows flopped and her Vogue covers being some of the lowest selling!
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that doesn't seem to deter anna from giving her cover after cover.
fan fact for you, rihanna is the youngest black woman to ever cover vogue US 
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Originally posted by lonnie
bey and h&m wasn't a collaborative move, she was just the face of the clothing line. rih actually designed clothes for river island. and rih trumps all over bey in this aspect |
And which RI collection? There were several. That venture between Rih and RI boosted the global profile of RI
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Ben Lewis, chief executive, said that River Island is “more famous than it was a year ago” on the back of its collaboration with the global chart-topper and “would consider” expansion into the US.
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Listen, ADOU or whoever the hell you are, you need to quit these ****ing comparison threads.
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I don't get why some are trying it.
Rih gets praised for her fashion left and right, whether by prominent fashion figures/brands or in magazines, it is constantly brought to the table when speaking of Rihanna. She defies the codes, she embraces her imperfections, her appearances are massively covered on every relevant show and are very often quoted as the best ones... that's what fashion icons are able to do, to me.
Bey doesn't touch her when it comes to that. She's definitely more known as an artist ( not that I'm shading Rihanna, because she's recognized enough both as an artist and a fashion icon ).
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Rihanna
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Originally posted by Surfboardt
Listen, ADOU or whoever the hell you are, you need to quit these ****ing comparison threads.
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You know what? Ignore them!
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i forgot about this too.
The river island collection was a success, the OP is obviously trying to find means to discredit that and boost her fave's image at the same time
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Originally posted by BubbleGomme
I don't get why some are trying it.
Rih gets praised for her fashion left and right, whether by prominent fashion figures/brands or in magazines, it is constantly brought to the table when speaking of Rihanna. She defies the codes, she embraces her imperfections, her appearances are massively covered on every relevant show and are very often quoted as the best ones... that's what fashion icons are able to do, to me.
Bey doesn't touch her when it comes to that. She's definitely more known as an artist ( not that I'm shading Rihanna, because she's recognized enough both as an artist and a fashion icon ).
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Originally posted by #ADOU
Can the Navy explain how Rihanna is a better Fashion Icon than Beyoncé, When her 2 Fashion Shows flopped and her Vogue covers being some of the lowest selling!
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I don't know what are you talking about.
Can #ADOU explain me why there isn't a poll in this thread? It would have been insteresting see the results
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Reading through this thread and all i see is little snarky comments that are absolutely unnecessary 
Anyway i have to go with Rih. Liek others already said Bey dresses nice and gets buzz for it but it doesn't reach the impact Rih had/ has. Also Rih is much of a trendsetter something Beyonce really isn't.
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Beyoncé can't dress at all.
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