May 24, 2013
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Posts tagged: Rihanna

Fashion Fridays: Rihanna Designs for Armani

Words by Jesse Serwer

It’s safe to say that everyone wants a piece of Rihanna at this point. If it’s not her body they/we are after, then it’s a slice of what’s going into her wallet. The “sexiest woman alive” has inked a number of endorsement deals in recent months, becoming the face of Vita Coco and Barbados’ tourism board. One of her latest maneuvers is a partnership with Giorgio Armani’s Emporio label, for which she has appeared in ads for its fall/winter collection. The singer has also designed a capsule collection consisting of two pairs of jeans, two T-shirts and underwear for the line, which is slated to appear in stores any minute now. We can’t lie: the clothes don’t look all that (See what we mean below). This is really just an excuse to post the above pic (from a recent Armani print ad) and Armani’s recent, noir-style commercial (or, as they call it, “short film”) depicting Rihanna stripping down to her underwear in the backseat of a limo:

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Yacht, Club: Stream Rihanna’s “You Da One”

Words by Jesse Serwer

Somehow, in between modeling endless bathing suits aboard a yacht during her recent Italian vacation, Rihanna has put the finishing touches on her album Talk That Talk. The advance word on the LP, out Nov. 21, is that its “the dirtiest pop album since Madonna’s Erotica.” On first listen to the album snippet currently floating around online, there doesn’t appear to anything quite as brap-worthy as “Rude Boy” or “Man Down” but there’s certainly some tunes that will fit nicely in the dancehall—most notably the as-filthy-as-it-sounds “Cockiness.” Today, Rihanna leaked the full version of “You Da One,” the album’s second single (produced by Dr. Luke) and a track with a strong island undercurrent, if not quite straight up Caribbean vibes. Stream it below, and don’t spend too much of your day looking at those bathing suit pics.

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Seen, Three: Rihanna on the Cover of Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive Issue

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Esquire

OK, Rihanna is not the French Antillean femme fatale I imagined Friday, but her cover of Esquire magazine–and the title of Sexiest Woman Alive, 2011 that comes with it–round out an epic (dare I say, astronomical) week for Caribbean beauty. The badgal trifecta is complete! And with Naomi’s LURVE cover and Nicki’s Cosmo all hitting the newsstand at once like a crew of ouch girls rushing the velvet ropes it is safe to say that in 2011, when you say ‘sex symbol’ ‘Caribbean Queen’ is implied.

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Style and VIbes: A Look Back at Dancehall Fashion, Pt. 4: The 2000s

Words by Mikelah Rose

In the early to mid 2000’s, it seemed like everyone caught a little dancehall fever. Shaggy, Sean Paul and Beenie Man were at the forefront of the crossover movement, and their international success piqued fans’ interest in what was really going on in the dancehall. Fans around the world wanted to emulate styles straight from the source, and people who weren’t Caribbean wanted to rock Puma gear with Jamaican flag colors—well before Usain Bolt was breaking world records.

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Toppa Top 10: Top 10 Caribbean Style Icons

Words by Jesse Serwer

Already proclaimed a “style icon” by Paper, Complex and, yes, even Okayplayer, Theophilus London has fashion brands tripping over themselves to work with him right now. Watching the Brooklyn-born Trinidadian rapper/singer’s ascension into full-fledged it bwoy, we can’t help but notice that he takes many of his stylistic cues from fellow Caribbeans, from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Fab Five Freddy and Harry Belafonte. Between Theophilus’ emergence and his fellow Trini Anya Ayoung-Chee‘s show-stealing on Project Runway, Caribbean style seems to be having a little moment right now, so it seemed like the perfect time to count down the most iconic practitioners of style from the islands and the Diaspora.

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Video: Nicki Minaj x Rihanna, “Fly”

Words by Jesse Serwer

The Trini gyal and the Bajan chick have dropped a video for “Fly,” their collaboration off of Nicki’s 2010 album Pink Friday–just in time for that celebration of pan-Caribbean bredren-and-sistrenhood that is New York City Carnival. It’s unlikely that this was intentional but nice timing, nonetheless. “Fly” wasn’t one of the better songs on “Pink Friday”–and we’re not sure we love it any more after seeing this video–but there’s something to be said about two Caribbean stars of this magnitude joining forces. It would be hard to argue that there are any bigger names with West Indies birth certificates than these two right now. The clip, which starts off looking like a post-apocalyptic car commercial, is set on the site of a plane crash in some sort of suburban neighborhood. For a while, it’s main conceit seems to be how many weird wigs can Nicki wear–there’s one that resembles a late-’80s-hip-hop-style Gumby fade, another with a leopard print. But then, out of nowhere, two ninjas arrive, and we get a taste of Nicki Minaj, martial arts star.

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