Earlier this week my favorite Island girl, Rihanna grabbed the CFDA 2014 Fashion Icon Award looking every bit of glamorous. The Style Icon herself was a vision in this custom made Adam Selman gown, covered head-to-toe in Swarovski crystals (200,000) with a pink fur stole in tow. The "Bad girl" truly took a fashion risk and I gotta admit this is one of my favorite looks on her.
Rihanna paid a huge honor to Josephine Baker, who celebrated her birthday yesterday in this one of a kind dress. Are you obsessed with this look? I can't stop crushin' on her! Kudos to Rihanna for ALWAYS keeping us on our toes and giving people something to talk about. Gotta love her!
Read Rihanna's acceptance speech below:
"Growing up I didn't have a lot of access to fashion. But as far as I could remember, fashion has always been my defense mechanism. Even as a child I remember thinking, "She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit." [Laughter and cheers.] And to this day I mean, that is how I think about it. I can compensate for all my weaknesses with my fashion. And so really, you really can ... I enjoy the most that you can tell so much about who someone is just by their style — the way they put fashion together. And I think fashion has been an outlet for me to express myself, to speak up, to say who I am and to be very loud about it at times, and I just like to have fun with it. Fashion is just a world of thrills, it's exciting, there's no rules, there's just ... I mean, SHE has tons of rules [gestures at Anna Wintour, audience laughs] ... Scratch that! Scratch that! [More audience laughter.] There are RULES! But rules are meant to be broken. [Audience cheers and claps.]
I want to thank MAC for being so supportive and for keeping my face so cute. I want to thank all of the stylists who I've worked with because it's steps, it's stages to get here, and now I can't believe that we're here at the CFDA Awards. Mel Ottenberg, thank you! You GET ME. You honestly get me, and you understand what I'm trying to say. I can send you two pictures, and you bring back the rack full of exactly what I wanted. There's nothing better than that because fashion should never be frustrating. It should be fun! Make it easy to me. I want to thank everybody here tonight, my friends, my family for being supportive, thank you, guys! Good night." - Rihanna
