“After we met, we talked about what I wanted visually, what would make me the happiest girl in the world,” said Rihanna at the artwork’s official unveiling earlier this month. The title of the piece is taken from a Chloe Mitchell poem addressing one of the main themes in Rihanna’s work - being powerful yet misunderstood - which Nachum translated into Braille on the canvas. The Anti album cover is taken from Nachum’s painting “If They Let Us, Part 1.” The image features a mesmerizing photorealist interpretation of Rihanna as a little girl in Barbados, holding a black balloon (“a metaphor of escaped reality,” according to Nachum), and with a crown covering her eyes (” … a symbol of power and success, which blinds people to the real values and important things in life”). There is currently a waiting list for people hoping to own a Nachum original. Nachum and Jay Z met at an event where the artist was showing a few pieces of his work, and the two got to talking. “He just bought them,” says Nachum, who has also sold work to celebs including Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, and even Leonardo DiCaprio.
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(“He supports my art and is actually one of the first people to collect my work,” Nachum says of Timberlake.) But it was Jay Z who ultimately linked Rihanna with the artist for the Anti project, after the singer admired a piece appropriately titled The Crown - from Nachum’s 2011 series “Color Blind” - hanging in the rapper-mogul’s Roc Nation office. And separated her from a bunch of girls that were kind of coming out at the same time or were already out at the same time.” The rest is, as they say, history-and now, quite an expensive piece of history.Nachum is no stranger to pop royalty he’s been friends with Justin Timberlake for close to a decade. Everything worked together because even the music was so different. “Obviously, the music would have still been good, but her changing the look really made people pay attention to her. “If she didn’t change her look, wouldn’t have been as impactful,” Stephen said. Then, right before Rihanna was scheduled to do the album cover photo shoot, Stephen took off even more length. The pair premiered their collaboration in January. “My mother would never let me dye my hair black!” Rihanna said. A graduate of the Cooper Union, Roy Nachum has been working with Rihanna for a little over a year to create the album cover and artwork for Anti. The next day, though, when Stephen was alone with Rihanna, she took even more off of Rihanna’s freshly dyed jet black hair. “She was annoying to me, and Rihanna as well, because of her constant hovering,” Stephen recalled. When she was giving Rihanna the haircut, though, she only took off a small amount to appease a Def Jam rep who was there to monitor the transformation.
Her hairstylist Ursula Stephen told the story about how the bob came to be in an interview with Billboard celebrating the 10th anniversary of the record that contains the hits “Umbrella,” “Don’t Stop the Music,” and “Shut Up and Drive.” “We did it a day before her album packaging in a hotel in L.A.,” Stephen said. Fiercely, she did so against the advice of those in her inner circle. When she was gearing up for the photo shoot, Rihanna made a bold decision to transform her hair into the black bob that became her signature during the aughts.
The album cover depicting her in the dress was the beginning of her persona as a fashion icon who couldn’t care less about anyone’s opinion other than her own. It marks the beginning of Bad Gal RiRi as we now know her. To be fair, the dress is more than just a wearable garment. It just sold at an auction on Gotta Have Rock & Roll for $13,310.
It just sold at an auction on Gotta Have Rock & Roll for 13,310.
Namely, the iconic white Preen dress she wore for the cover of her 2007 breakthrough album, Good Girl Gone Bad. Namely, the iconic white Preen dress she wore for the cover of her 2007 breakthrough album, Good Girl Gone Bad. Rihanna may be bringing her style to the masses with her Puma collaborations and her upcoming lingerie line, but that hasn’t stopped fans from spending thousands of dollars on her own clothing.
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