Rihanna covers Vogue April 2011. I wrote a while ago about how the singer was going to be covering American Vogue’s April cover, as she wrote about the shoot on Twitter in early January. The 23-year-old wrote on her Twitter, January 13, she’d wrapped her first cover for the fashion magazine and had been photographed by Annie Leibovitz. I don’t know if I like the cover. She kind of looks like a Little Mermaid/ Jessica Rabbit-hybrid, with the over-excitable hair stylist going for the brightest red wig they could find. And she’s standing outside, which makes an unusual cover (unusual aside from the Gwyneth Paltrow’s American Vogue cover by Herb Ritts in March 2002 which looked really similar in composition). Well, Rihanna’s contortionist, awkwardly-posed, mermaid cover is teamed with a mermaid dress. According to someone at TheFashionSpot, the outfit’s ‘a modified version of [a] Chanel Pre-fall 11 dress,’ and by ‘modified,’ they mean the boob area’s been cut out as Rihanna likes to flash flesh. I’d usually skip over this cover, as I pretty much don’t like anything about Rihanna at this point, but I like Vogue covers and leaked covers and couldn’t resist posting this. There’s nothing from inside the issue, yet. Nor a leak of her interview. I’d expect it to be pretty dull, as this appears to be ‘The 10th Annual Shape Issue,’ with a byline about ‘How [Rihanna] Really Feels About Her Curves’. Fine, I would guess. As, when asked on Twitter about the release of nude/ topless pictures, she joked about how they were taken when she ‘was skinny.’ Cele|Bitchy notes the cover’s pretty interesting on two fronts; it’s a pop star cover, rather than a movie star, moreover, it’s a Vogue cover for a woman of colour, that’s flattering. We all know the latter happens less than the former.
