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I'll take ACTUAL FASHION EXPERTS opinion over the simple mortals who hang around this forum. From her new Vogue cover:
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Fashion-wise, Rihanna’s a hit-maker for the masses and the designers. The Rihanna Effect was all over the spring collections. Peter Dundas for Pucci showed leather boxer shorts worn with jeweled jackets, and adorned his red-carpet frocks with beaded black harnesses. Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing, who has Rihanna starring in his spring ad campaign, showed what amounted to an entire Rihanna wardrobe on his runway: baseball jackets worn with sheer tops and skinny houndstooth pants; eighties-inspired denim minidresses cinched at the waist. Tom Ford’s bejeweled teeny-tiny dresses and thigh-high gladiator sandals said Rihanna loud and clear.
Here’s what those designers have to say about her. “There is no one else that excites me more,” says Alexander Wang, sipping an iced coffee. “It’s raw, it’s smart, it’s everything pop culture needs to move forward.” Mr. Ford declares from his London studio, “She can throw on combinations you can’t imagine other people could possibly wear, and look great. In the fashion world she has inspired a very, very loose mix of random items.” Peter Dundas, on a train ride between Pucci offices in Milan and Florence, calls her “a very talented dresser, in the way that Kate Moss is. She’s an amplified version of what a lot of girls want to look like, but she’s always a step ahead of the game.” “My e-mail to her asking her to do the campaign said ‘Balmainriri,’ ” says Olivier Rousteing on the line from Paris (a riff on Badgalriri, Rihanna’s Instagram account, which has eleven million followers; her Twitter account has 34 million). Olivier tells me Rihanna is his muse. “My goal is, I love ’er!” he enthuses in accented English. “I love my brand! I love my clothes! And I want them everywhere! And Rihanna is everywhere! We both love social media! We love to text!!! She is the new Wonder Woman!!!”
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And that's that sistren. Tea straight from THE FASHION INDUSTRY.
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