The woman is a fashion genius and there’s no two ways about it.
This is Rihanna's new River Island collection. It comes out May 25, and she totally deserves it.
Really, if ANY celeb should be doing a clothing line, it's Rihanna. Here's why.
1. She's actually incredibly famous. Not so-so famous like a lot of people who get to do clothing lines.
Think Paris Hilton (whose stuff probably sells mostly overseas, maybe because she's more tolerable to those who don't speak English as a first language). Or Natalia Vodianova, who did a lingerie line for a store called Etam. Or Lauren Conrad, who... what does she even do anymore? Exist? Yeah, Rihanna's "busier" than all of them, I think most people would say.
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2. She's not trying to pretend like she designed everything herself.
This is incredibly admirable in a celebrity designer. Adam Selman, who designs the line with her, always speaks to reporters doing stories on the line and is given credit for his work. He even appeared with Rihanna at her fashion show. This is a lot different from other celebrity designers (coughVictoria Beckhamcough) who you know don't really design their lines but pretend like they do. In describing the Olsens twins' design methods once, a designer who interviewed to work with them once told me, "They say things like, 'we're really inspired by this ashtray,' and then you have to make clothes based on that.'" But those people don't do press with the Olsens.
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