Celeb News: Anna Wintour Praises Rihanna; Compares Her to Madonna

Rihhyonce

I finally bought my copy of March's Vogue and found this little gem. I'm surprised no one has posted it yet.

From this month's Vogue "Letter From the Editor":

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Everywhere we looked during the spring 2014 collections, we saw Rihanna. Not the record-breaking, social-media-ruling pop icon herself, but rather her look, her attitude was replicated on so many of the season's runways. It started in New York with Alexander Wang, continued on to London with Tom Ford, switched over to Pucci in Milan, and then arrived in Paris at Balmain. During the shows, Vogue's editors started to call this phenomenon the RiRi ripple, though "tidal wave" might have been more accurate. How, then, could we not make this 26-year-old Bajan global superstar our March cover girl, given that this is our annual Power Issue, where we celebrate those who decisively inform and influence our world?

That Rihanna is such an inspiration to designers this spring speaks volumes about the compelling and original way she puts herself together. For the longest time now, the music world has been without a performer whose regular unveilings of a new look after new look--often relying on upcoming and unknown designers to help realize her vision--left us all waiting for her latest transformation. Madonna was the last one capable of that; Lady Gaga, while a brilliant manipulator of image, has always to my mind been much more concerned with orchestrating stylistic changes that were about making Artistic Statements. Incidentally, one more comparison between Madonna and Rihanna: For the cover, we decided she should wear a jet-beaded Victorian blouse and faded denim from Marc Jacobs's final Louis Vuitton collection. Marc had mentioned to me before his show that he had referenced the Christian Lacroix Haute Couture jacket worn with distressed jeans that appeared on my first cover as editor of Vogue in November 1988, an ensemble that was very Material Girl in it's unabashed mix of high and low.

Rihanna's style has always been imbued with the energy of the street, along with her own playful--and, yes, sometimes bad-girl--persona. Having watched so many movie stars dressed in clichéd notions of "glamour" on the red carpet at this January's Golden Globes, one can see why she would be the subject of such intense devotion from designers: It's her sense of adventure every time she puts something on that they are drawn to--not to mention the idea that she can make her daring fashion choices seem enthralling and (sometimes) translatable to real life. Rihanna certainly gamely played along with every change that Fashion Director Tonne Goodman and photographer David Sims came up with in "Stylin' with RiRi" (page 568). Meanwhile, writer Plum Sykes agreed, in acknowledgement of Rihanna's pervasive influence, to be made over by her. The story that results is brilliantly funny.

What kind of universal industry acclaim?

Haunter

Fashion icon.

dabunique

Yes da Devil has spoken!!!!!!

Buddy!

queen

Surfboardt

Yeah they do this for every cover. If not "ICON" would have posted it on her Instagram.

manwhore

OOPS. certain fanbase/s isn't going to like this.

M!X

And people still attempt to deny her impact on the fashion industry.

Anyway slay ICON.

qurl

She has been absolutely KILLING it lately with all of her looks, there isn't any amount of praise she doesn't deserve to be quiTe honest

Swag

The Gaga shade

Gui Blackout

Queen of Pop & Fashion!

villain

Anna usually doesn't care for anything black aside from coffee and penis.

MikeFenty

And people say she's not influential or an fashion icon.

Haunter

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Anna usually doesn't care for anything black aside from coffee and penis.

GlitterBitch

The Queen Of Pop and The Queen Of R&B and their style >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Watch'N'Learn

She's has no influence though. I love it lol

only the queen!

Parks

Icon!

Rihhyonce

"The RiRi ripple".

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Originally posted by Surfboardt

Yeah they do this for every cover. If not "ICON" would have posted it on her Instagram.

You sound upset.

RiRi_Xtina15

Queen.

RomanNavy

Most influential artist of our time.
Seriously.
How many artists/bands hang pics of her in the studio to get inspired?
A year ago research found SHE was the reason most non-English speaking people wanted to learn English.
Now this. The acclaim continues. She is a ****ing LEGEND.
Wow so proud of her....

From the left side of an island yeh..

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Originally posted by Surfboardt

Yeah they do this for every cover. If not "ICON" would have posted it on her Instagram.

FosteR

A truly ICON. So proud of my little gurl