Rihanna is the definition of doing it all. The songstress turned fashion icon, and beauty guru has featured on the new Italian Vogue cover, styled and shot by herself.
Throughout the course of her stellar career, she’s managed to grace the cover of nearly every major publication, and singlehandedly changed the beauty and lingerie game as we knew it with her Fenty lines. Now, the Barbadian singer has another achievement, a record that only one other musician has ever accomplished– Madonna.
Rihanna featuring on this month’s cover of Vogue Italia makes her only the second musician to appear on the front of the “Big Four” Vogue magazines: American Vogue, British Vogue, Vogue Paris and Vogue Italia.
Badgirlriri shared some snaps from the shoot on Wednesday (June 2), including the cover image of her in a sheer Valentino gown and high heels as part of what the magazine dubbed their “Rihanna by Rihanna” issue.
“The do-it-yourself issue,” Rihanna captioned the image, which noted that she was also the project director on the shoot.
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Rihanna is squatting down in another snap while wearing a sheer black top, tights and heels while rocking a choppy green wolf cut.
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Another image shows a ready-for-winter look in which she’s wearing three pairs of pants and at least as many jackets with the caption, “Lil pressure.”
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Another stunning shot shows her wrapped in a red, flower-dripping negligee.
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Vogue Italia Editor-In-Chief Emanuele Farneti spoke about how the self-directed shoot came together. “On set, Rihanna played simultaneously the artist and the muse, the observer and the observed, the director and the character, experimenting on the fine line that exists between the two sides of an artist. In recent years we have tried to use our cover in many different ways: with photography or illustrations, or with no images at all.”
“But we’ve never invited the featured person to do everything by themselves: to pose, take the photographs and choose the clothes to wear. If there was a right occasion for this new experiment, it could only have been the DIY issue,” Farneti said. “Neither could there have been a better protagonist than Rihanna – who has appeared on so many covers, but never like this time in the version in which she, and only she, has chosen to portray herself, without filters or any mediation.”
