Rihanna's lingerie show video to stream on Amazon Prime
Rihanna believes women of all shapes, colors and sizes should be celebrated, and that spirit of inclusion has made her lingerie and beauty lines massive successes.
"Women just need a little bit of validation," the superstar explained to The Associated Press ahead of her Savage X Fenty fashion show last week. "You are beautiful. Your body's beautiful. Your bodies sexy and you deserve to feel that way," she added.
Her mission will be showcased Friday as Amazon Prime Video streams her New York Fashion Week extravaganza for Savage X Fenty in more than 200 countries and territories. The event's army of models included women of all sizes in a range of ethnicities and skin tones.
"We need to make stuff that's real and looks like the world," rapper Rapsody said of how Rihanna is changing the fashion and beauty game. "The world comes in so many shapes and different colors. Who cares about what people think the standard of beauty is, and lightness. She's like, 'Nah, we need dark tones.
We need all tones ... albinos and freckles.' She's really looking at everybody, and that's what's dope about Rihanna." The show, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, was drenched in dreamy color - yellow, purple, blue and green - evoking an exotic locale with four tiers of large arched windows, stairs and a shallow round pool.
And who best to kick things off than the woman herself? Rihanna opened the Sept. 10 show dressed in a sexy lace bodysuit, a black bra top and a black velvet miniskirt. She gyrated, but didn't sing, from a short platform surrounded by fellow female dancers in black bodysuits, only she did it in spiky heels and they in black sneakers.
