Rihanna

Career & style

Rihanna moved from Barbados into an international recording career with Music of the Sun in 2005. The dance-pop of Good Girl Gone Bad and the less uniform sound of Anti show why her career cannot be reduced to one visual period. Her work also extends into beauty and clothing through Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty.

Her fashion story is especially useful for understanding the difference between wearing a label and building one. Savage X Fenty presentations combined lingerie, choreography and a varied cast, making the show itself part of the product. Look at the relationship between silhouette, movement and casting, rather than treating each red-carpet appearance as a disconnected spectacle.