Armani And Rihanna Go Film Noir

Reminiscent of New Wave Pop group Duran Duran's ever stylish video "The Chauffeur" Rihanna takes the backseat in this Film Noir inspired advert as the face of the new Armani jeans campaign.

Trying to wrap your head around the ‘tour de force’ that spells Rihanna is not an easy task. With five highly successful studio albums under her belt selling over 20 million copies, making her one of the best selling artists of all time and the youngest artist in Billboard charts history to achieve ten number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, her career has had the trajectory of a missile launch.

Little surprise then Armani chose Rihanna as the new face of Armani Jeans and Emporio Armani Underwear. Given her innate sexiness, strong spirit and magnetic persona, she’s the natural spokesperson for the edgy and confident Armani Jeans and Emporio Armani Underwear customer.

The campaign shot my renowned fashion photographer Steven Klein in New York is quoted to evoke the overall industrial and urban theme of this season’s collection.

Take a backseat with Rihanna below.

Rihanna The New Face Of Armani

The Toronto Sun reports that new pop queen Rihanna has shot an advertising campaign in New York as the newest face for global fashion brand Armani.

Rihanna will take over for the seductive Megan Fox as the face of Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans for autumn/winter 2011-12. This is not the first campaign for the 23 year old Barbados beauty as she previously was spokes person for Cover Girl cosmetics and a campaign for Italian fashion and leather goods label Gucci.

She has a voice and a face for music, her perfume line Reb'L Fleur why not add another X to her global name.

Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol! Roll Out Your Silkscreen Portraits

What did Andy Warhol think of the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Halston, Valentino, Diane von Furstenberg, Giorgio Armani, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Debbie Harry, Liza Minelli, Grace Jones, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, all of whom were either leading figures in fashion, musique, art, cinema, and culture? Well he obviously must of thought very highly of these individuals because in the mid 1970's, Andy reincarnated his iconic silkscreen portraits, similar to those he originally created in the 1960s of Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie O.




On this post, I've included some examples of Andy's brilliant silkscreen art pieces that still hold an impressionable artistic voice, some 40 years after it's creation. This is exactly what i've always said, there are flavor's of the month and than there classics. Andy Warhol, a pioneer of the Pop art movement era, truly exemplifies this notion To a T.




"Andy Warhol Silk Screen Restoration."



"Andy Warhol Eats a Hamburger."