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Rihanna Posen Rock Fashion
NEW YORK - Fashion will rock this week when two young artists - singer Rihanna and designer Zac Posen - get together for a charity event.
The two are teaming to create the outfits the Barbados-born Rihanna will wear for the Fashion Rocks concert, the high-wattage kickoff to New York Fashion Week. The concert, with headliner Elton John along with Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Kanye West, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and the Pussycat Dolls, will be held at Radio City Music Hall tonight and televised on Channel 3 tomorrow night. All proceeds benefit John's AIDS foundation.
"Rihanna's incredibly beautiful and a good dancer. She's a rare star with a full complement of talents," said Posen, 25, during the final fittings for her dresses earlier this week.
Meanwhile, as 18-year-old Rihanna saw her star rise this summer with her top 10 song "Unfaithful," and as she posed for more and more photo shoots, she noticed that the clothes she always seemed drawn to were Posen's. Once she found out that she'd be performing at the concert, she contacted Posen about her wardrobe.
"Growing up in Barbados, I was just a regular girl," she said. "But I was always interested in fashion. Barbados is so far away from everything else, my friend and I would look at magazines and say, 'So that's what's hot in the rest of the world.' We'd wear sweaters, boots - we didn't care if that's what was in style."
Source: philly.com
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