Rihanna recently landed her THIRD Vogue cover and first Power issue and was praised by Anna Wintour
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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.
Like, you guys can't try to come for Gaga and say people only care about her "wacky clothing" and then turn around and be like, "she's not a fashion icon". If people only care about her "wacky clothing", then that's the very definition of a fashion icon.
Gaga, hands down. Rihanna doesn't have any iconic fashion pieces, whereas Gaga has the meat dress, the hair bow, and people even associate McQueen's armadillo heels with Gaga. People are always interested in what she's going to wear.
But at the same time, Rihanna is still a fashion icon. If she can begin to sell fashion magazines the way Gaga has been able to and even land the most prestigious spot in fashion, the September Cover of Vogue Magazine US, then maybe she could become bigger.
Gaga, hands down. Rihanna doesn't have any iconic fashion pieces, whereas Gaga has the meat dress, the hair bow, and people even associate McQueen's armadillo heels with Gaga. People are always interested in what she's going to wear.
All of the "iconic" things you mentioned are things that the public no longer cares about and that the industry never really did. Rihanna has a style that is emulated by tons of people daily and that is what makes her a fashion icon, not having one piece that the blogs talk about for a few days.
