http://instagram.com/p/owzH9BtogL/

http://www.justjared.com/2014/06/02/rihanna-stuns-in-completely-sheer-dress-at-cfda-awards-2014/

bad bitch alert

does it really matter?

vote for bin: http://tinyurl.com/qz8zep5

at multiple angles lol.

unless i'm seeing her wearing that in person, i'm over it.

that was better.

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=12466880&mode=full#12467153

lawd have mercy, that woman is fine.

never understood that.

is she not a beautiful woman?

its like youre saying she's less beautiful because youve seen her beauty too many times?

or is novelty the only thing worthy of your attention and admiration?

she's shown all her goodies already so i'd rather see a less beautiful person naked for the 1st time lol.

i wish i could feel the texture of the dress..i wonder if it's itchy with all those crystals built in

that designer needs an award and that dress needs to be in a museum

all the other pop stars try to be sexy and look foolish but she kills it everytime

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/fashion/rihanna-style-stylist-mel-ottenberg.html?_r=0

Rihanna’s Style Has a Name: Mel Ottenberg
By MATTHEW SCHNEIERMAY 28, 2014

When your star client is an internationally obsessed-over, unfailingly photographed clotheshorse, a peculiar problem presents itself.

“It’s the end of May,” the stylist Mel Ottenberg said, “and we’ve already used up all of fall/winter. It’s over.”

For most women, the fall/winter collections, which won’t arrive in stores for several months, are something to look forward to. For Rihanna, the record-setting artist and current idol of fashion, they are old news.

Even racing ahead of the fashion metabolism of the average woman as it does, the industry has not found a way to keep up with her. It is the job of Mr. Ottenberg, who styles her for her videos, tours, many of her innumerable magazine shoots and most of her appearances, to keep her in clothes.

It is all the more difficult to do because at the moment, Rihanna loves fashion, and fashion loves Rihanna.

She was the uncontested front-row get at Paris Fashion Week in March, where she took in the Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, Comme des Garçons and Stella McCartney shows, among others. She made the cover of the all-important March issue of Vogue, which took note of “The Rihanna Effect” on the spring collections, tracing the influence of her look on designers like Tom Ford, Peter Dundas of Pucci and Olivier Rousteing of Balmain. Backstage at his show, Mr. Rousteing listed her among his influences: His collection, he said, was “celebrating my age, my inspiration, my love, Rihanna.” He had already booked her to appear in his spring ad campaign, styled by Mr. Ottenberg.

Next week, the Council of Fashion Designers of America will give her its institutional imprimatur, naming her the Fashion Icon of 2014 at the annual CFDA awards. “It’s very much the air du temps,” said Diane von Furstenberg, the council president, speaking from her home in Paris. “She appeared and everybody agreed.”

Why now? There’s no disputing that Rihanna has star power and an enviable catalog of hits. (She has racked up 13 No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Hot 100 list, tying Michael Jackson’s record.) But the fashion adulation is a more recent phenomenon. “Her love of fashion, her becoming such a genius at using fashion as a creative expression, that’s sort of blossomed in the last couple years,” Mr. Ottenberg said. As much as he credits her sense of style and stresses that she is a collaborator, not a mannequin, the difference in the last few years is Mr. Ottenberg himself.

“I saw the potential there,” he said. “I could take that and really do something with that.”

In many ways, he is an unlikely choice for the position. Mr. Ottenberg has spent the last decade or so as a stylist working primarily in magazines and on the runway. He styled the fashion week shows of the workmanlike men’s wear designer Adam Kimmel and contributed to magazines at a distance from the mainstream, like Purple and i-D.

Yet through it all, he nursed a fixation as well with pop culture. “His retention for the history of pop culture is pretty unique, at least within our circle,” said the architect and designer Rafael de Cárdenas, a friend since their days at the Rhode Island School of Design. “And our circle’s pretty well versed in pop culture.” (About a jacket Mr. de Cárdenas was once considering, Mr. Ottenberg said: “You can’t wear that military jacket. You look like Audrey from ‘European Vacation.’ ”)

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Mr. Ottenberg began working with Rihanna for the “Loud” tour in 2011, for which he commissioned his boyfriend, the designer Adam Selman, and the designer Jeremy Scott to create the costumes. (Mr. Selman has since become a frequent collaborator with Mr. Ottenberg on Rihanna’s looks, and a designer on the collection she created with the English retailer River Island.)

“To see it opening night, to see it live and to see the fans freaking out and singing along, I was hooked,” Mr. Ottenberg said. “I was like: ‘This is cool. This is something different. You can do something with this. You can start trends. This is something people will talk about.’ ”

But in an industry where stylists tend to split between celebrity and editorial camps, Mr. Ottenberg, 38, chose to straddle both. “Working with her is really fulfilling,” he said, “but it’s just one part of what I do. There’s definitely a divide.”

He consults for Nike and continues to style for magazines, including the vanguard culture journal 032c, based in Berlin, which last year named him its fashion director. Joerg Koch, its founder and editor, praised his ability to understand and balance the aesthetics of an international pop star and a niche magazine. “That’s probably a new phenomenon,” he said. “The whole thing about mainstream versus underground just doesn’t exist anymore.”

Whether mainstream or underground, a scuffed-up, lived-in grunginess has always been a key part of Mr. Ottenberg’s aesthetic. Not for nothing was an early patron John Galliano, who hired Mr. Ottenberg to style him personally in the kind of torched, threadbare finery he favored. (In April, a former assistant wrote in an online article that Mr. Ottenberg had instructed him to buy a homeless man’s clothes off his back for Mr. Galliano, an allegation that Mr. Ottenberg denies.)

“I love glamour and I can play with glamour, but at the end of the day, I’m more of a scrappy, disheveled type of vibe,” he said.

That vibe proved to be a good match for Rihanna, and right for the time.

The last singer to make a comparable impact in fashion (and to be named the CFDA’s Fashion Icon, in 2011) was Lady Gaga, whose fashion sense tends toward the conceptual and the hyper-styled. Rihanna’s, by contrast, is sexy, often glamorous, but streetwise. “My whole thing was she’s so beautiful, she’s so over the top, she doesn’t need so much stuff,” Mr. Ottenberg said of the now-signature look he worked with her to create. “We can strip it down.”

He dates their fashion breakthrough to the video for “We Found Love” in fall 2011. (It won a Grammy for best short-form music video and the MTV Video Award for video of the year.) The wardrobe is echt Ottenberg: some fashion, including, notably, pieces from emerging and under-the-radar designers like Komakino and Forfex, but also heaps of well-worn vintage, much of it from close to home.

“She’s wearing my boyfriend’s clothes in so much of that video,” he said. (Mr. Ottenberg’s first-ever styled magazine feature, in The Face in 2001, was also styled primarily from his own closet.)

Designers now line up to create custom looks for Rihanna, working in concert with Mr. Ottenberg. In addition to Mr. Selman, Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, Raf Simons, and Alber Elbaz of Lanvin created pieces for her recent “Diamonds” tour. A new tour, with Eminem, kicks off this summer, for which there will be more. A constant stream of the new is required. “She wants to be psyched,” Mr. Ottenberg said.

There are challenges to keeping a pop star that way. Mr. Ottenberg works on her schedule. “I get her dressed for some of her biggest red-carpet things in three minutes,” he said. “That’s all I really have.” He hadn’t intended to do the Paris Fashion Week shows with her in March, but once she made her intentions known, he “got thrown into full Ri world,” he said.

The reward is that as Rihanna has shot to fashion stardom, she has pulled Mr. Ottenberg along with her. Her Instagram account, now discarded, included pictures of her with Mr. Ottenberg fully in the entourage of her celebrity friends. She pressed him into service as a judge, alongside Pharrell Williams and the model Erin Wasson, on her reality show “Styled to Rock,” where he dispensed tough-love advice to aspiring designers hoping to create red-carpet looks for rock stars. He is frequently recognized on the street and pressed into posing for selfies.

On a recent trip, he said, “The lady at the airport was like: ‘I know who you are. Oh, my God, are you going to see her right now?’ ”

He wasn’t. He doesn’t travel the world with her, maintaining his own frenetic schedule for shoots and consulting. But his life has changed. He recently expanded his studio and moved out of the rent-controlled apartment he has called home for the last 15 years. He now has one assistant solely for Rihanna-related matters.

“He’s definitely harder to get ahold of,” said Mr. de Cárdenas, though he added: “Have I seen him change as a person? I can’t say that I have. He’s probably more the same person than anyone else we’re friends with.” Whatever fans may believe or social media may suggest about his relationship to his star client, Mr. Ottenberg said, “I’m part of the hired help.”

The question of where to go next looms. Requests come in from other stars, he said, but “at this point in my life I’m not that interested in creating a whole world around somebody else.” He said he is shopping around for a big project, with an eye on a TV series or a film. (He declined to share specifics, though meetings take him back and forth to the West Coast frequently.)

But first, there is Rihanna to ready for the red carpet at the CFDAs. Which might not be the canvas of choice for many fashion directors of Berlin magazines, but Mr. Ottenberg didn’t see it that way.

“It’s a new medium for doing a fashion shoot,” he said

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she probably brings the best out of this style...she carries it all so damn well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci4rdARje0c

like...behold me

I might use it for lube.

http://www.tumblr.com/search/rihanna+fashion

love this dress!! she looks amazing

http://i.minus.com/ie9XBKp8XOZFy.gif

im never mad at her.

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http://i.imgur.com/4GvfGNt.gif

but out of jeans it's poppin'?

and it's a beautiful thing

http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/01784/Rihanna_1784408a.jpg

In no way does this chick not have a flat ass. Even if she was white, her shit would still be flat relative to other white chicks. Dudes just can't be honest about shit like this, for some reason.

She's got cheeks.

Y'all don't know what a REAL flat ass is. Go back and watch white movies and music videos from the 80s and you'll see what a flat ass means.

Shit, look at stuff like this, even: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/01/article-0-1E5EBE0300000578-431_634x947.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/01/article-0-1E60471E00000578-418_634x865.jpg

The fact that we gotta compare her to extra-flat booty white girls just shows that she's not working with much at all. I'm still not seeing this shape she has, either.

http://aleahconnect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Rihanna-Acacia-Cantik--e1342375076278.jpg
http://miscellany101.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/rihanna-swimsuit.jpg


I'll concede that she has a little shape, but absolutely no "fatness" back there. It works for her, tho. She has a great "look" to her.

Skinny white gal for comparison.
http://i.imgur.com/JaVGNw9.jpg

She has an ass.

It's just... subtle.

See, this is for the old school ass men. The reason we have this disgusting freak show of ass injections and glute surgery before is because these new niggas don't know how to even appreciate ass properly. They don't get the nuances... they can't even figure out if they're looking at an ass unless it can be seen from outer space.

Vets know it ain't about size... it's about shape and proportion.

>She has an ass.
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>It's just... subtle.
>
>See, this is for the old school ass men. The reason we have
>this disgusting freak show of ass injections and glute surgery
>before is because these new niggas don't know how to even
>appreciate ass properly. They don't get the nuances... they
>can't even figure out if they're looking at an ass unless it
>can be seen from outer space.
>
>Vets know it ain't about size... it's about shape and
>proportion.

i mean
her body is fantastic

not even that subtle damn
i swear dudes watch too much porn
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>She has an ass.
>
>It's just... subtle.
>
>See, this is for the old school ass men. The reason we have
>this disgusting freak show of ass injections and glute surgery
>before is because these new niggas don't know how to even
>appreciate ass properly. They don't get the nuances... they
>can't even figure out if they're looking at an ass unless it
>can be seen from outer space.
>
>Vets know it ain't about size... it's about shape and
>proportion.

>The fact that we gotta compare her to extra-flat booty white
>girls just shows that she's not working with much at all. I'm
>still not seeing this shape she has, either.
>
>http://aleahconnect.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Rihanna-Acacia-Cantik--e1342375076278.jpg
>http://miscellany101.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/rihanna-swimsuit.jpg
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>
>I'll concede that she has a little shape, but absolutely no
>"fatness" back there. It works for her, tho. She has a great
>"look" to her.
>
>Skinny white gal for comparison.
>http://i.imgur.com/JaVGNw9.jpg

I have the same situation.

Without hips, the wrong jeans smash your butt down.

I have a similar issue going on, but I'm not even as meaty as Rihanna. :-(

I swear my body would be banging if I was a few inches shorter, lol.

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just based off some of your prior posts, lol.

And say it's something like Super Magnificent Day.

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if she was really bout that life, she woulda worn a micro bikini or micro panties underneath like some malibu strings or wicked weasel shits.

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R.I.P. Disco D

then ri seriously

http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/3126935/rihanna-sheer-dress-cfda-fashion-awards-2014-08/



its a short list of female celebs that got da body

AND balls

to pull sumthin like dis off

plus it goess so perfect wit her skin n eyes n shit

da fur stole adds class but da nips n ass just say i aint givin no fuks

she untouchable

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http://smokingsomethingwithrihanna.tumblr.com/post/87686400967/cfda-in-new-york-city-jun-2

http://smokingsomethingwithrihanna.tumblr.com/post/87686852607/cfda-in-new-york-city-jun-2

fuk it. she goin for da thrown now

dis some icon shit lol

definitely iconic.
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And half naked. No bueno. I wish she recognized and cared about her influence on young girls enough to tone it down just a bit. But on the other hand, why should she?
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maybe it's just all the over exposure to her body though. I'd like to see her leave something to the imagination more often. This dress could have been just as amazing if it wasn't sheer. I think overall it's an amazing look. I love the 1920's inspiration. Her body looks amazing too. But her being nude and so exposed takes away from the dress a bit. It looks more like her body was just bedazzled with crystals. The gloves are amazing.

she's going to an event where she's being named a Fashion Icon for the year. you pretty much have to take your look to the max to even be worthy of receiving such an honor at that kind of event

to have done what you're suggesting would have not befitted an ICON...that's a heavy word.

she and her stylist played it exactly right, imo

she went old Hollywood glamour, mixed it with Josephine Baker, and topped it off a with a Bad Girl cherry.

brilliant.

d

>she went old Hollywood glamour, mixed it with Josephine Baker,
>and topped it off a with a Bad Girl cherry.
>
>brilliant.



and managed to stay true to herself

that girl vain

and i do not blame her a bit


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how else can she one up these?

http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/01924/Rihanna-main_1924687a.jpg
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1094184!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg
http://static.rumorfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/main.jpg
http://www.metro.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/rihanna.jpg

she aint out hea lookin like

http://i2.cdnds.net/12/46/618x1012/wenn8487.jpg


she make da shit look CLASSY n EXPENSIVE n GOOD

like compare these pics off tumblr of other celebs doin sheer

barbara streisand

http://hollybailey.tumblr.com/image/87694112538

kate moss

http://24.media.tumblr.com/bb18a648133ec0896f0b28458f2e70aa/tumblr_n6ldm8ShYD1snmyy3o2_1280.jpg

rose watsherface

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e7r_SQTn3_A/Ui1JaXttoZI/AAAAAAAAAqI/443vv6PtmDo/s1600/Rose+Mcgowan.jpg

ionno who dis is

http://i5.cdnds.net/14/03/450x1016/lady-victoria-hervey-in-see-thorugh-naked-dress-at-golden-globes-afterparty-2014-celebrity-sheer-dress-trend.jpg


now compare rih

http://www.designerzcentral.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Rihanna-Fashion-Icon-Award.jpg

lol come on yall

she untouchable

edit: more rih makin nips cool

http://www.elle.com/cm/elle/images/Da/elle-04-rihanna-putfits-paris-fashion-week-h.jpg

http://cdn.yournextshoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/rihanna-rosie-huntington-whiteley-nipples-paris-fashion-week-balmain.jpg

http://chicstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mullet-dressRIHANNA-SHOWING-OFF-HER-NIPPLE-2.jpeg

yes, there is more than one way to max out a look...i'm just saying this is one. she did it and it worked.

d

links and explanations why what she did was so fly. I said my 2 cents about it and it was my opinion. I don't need convincing otherwise. I originally said she looked amazing, but could have been just as amazing if the dress wasn't sheer as well. My personal opinion, period. You disagreed saying she's an icon, so the sheer move was necessary to take it to the max. That cool, think that. I don't.

there's no negative vibe at all in anything I'm saying and i'm not saying anything to negate your opinion...we both sharing what we think

d

while rocking a sheer dress, a thong, full nips and tats. On paper she could look like this--

http://www.funkydineva.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Khia.jpg

but she doesn't.

I also reject the idea that just showing your body is tacky. Rihanna demonstrates that it's really about how you show it.

The fact that she beautiful and tight as hell doesn't hurt either.

>while rocking a sheer dress, a thong, full nips and tats. On
>paper she could look like this--
>
>http://www.funkydineva.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Khia.jpg

*snatches that paper out of your hand and tears it up*

don't do that again.


>I also reject the idea that just showing your body is tacky.
>Rihanna demonstrates that it's really about how you show it.
>
>The fact that she beautiful and tight as hell doesn't hurt
>either.

yes to all of that.

d

I know you meant that as shade but it's yielded the opposite effect.

If Joseline had talent she wouldn't be Joseline at all. One of the things that defines her is how talentless she is.

That's like saying (insert irrelevant person here) is like (famous person) with (the thing that makes them famous). It makes no sense.

http://tinyurl.com/ceysnj2

>If Joseline had talent she wouldn't be Joseline at all. One
>of the things that defines her is how talentless she is.
>
>That's like saying (insert irrelevant person here) is like
>(famous person) with (the thing that makes them famous). It
>makes no sense.


and his profession deals with logic

no one knows who that woman is
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and rihannia's talent is arguable imo
let's not act like we're talking about jonelle monae or someone that can actually put on a good SHOW and sing
i probably should have said she is Joceline without the dirty baggage and butt implants

She's a reinventin' ol' somebody lol. <3

https://instagram.com/p/58TwgyBMzh/
https://instagram.com/p/58lvKyhMzk/
https://instagram.com/p/58lNGkhMye/
https://instagram.com/p/58f3f6hM5q/
https://instagram.com/p/58deWdBM1C/
https://instagram.com/p/58dHthhM0R/
https://instagram.com/p/58aKCWBM-9/
https://instagram.com/p/58TNE0hMyl/
https://instagram.com/p/58SPMTBMwr/
Bonus:
https://instagram.com/p/54blXahMyE/
https://instagram.com/p/50Jp7VhM3e/

I thought this post was about rescuing kittens. Sorry for the mixup people, carry on.

now she sweats sex appeal from her pores and it's never slutty. she's in full control of her image

Woke my ass up over the weekend though. One year later and WOW is right

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xap1/t51.2885-15/e15/11312515_1663353037282336_1824061727_n.jpg

I never get tired of looking at her.

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