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Refinery29 recently interviewed the man behind Rihanna’s style, designer Mel Ottenberg.

How did you start working with Rihanna?

“We had both worked with the same people, and I got hired to do a big performance with her. After that, she asked me to work for her. That was, oh, two years ago.”

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In the last “x” amount of years, she’s become, as Riccardo Tisci said, “the face of a generation.” How much input does she have in creating her look? How’s the creative process between you two?

“We definitely have some back-and-forth moments, but she’s in control of her image. It’s very collaborative. It’s a different process for everything, but quite often there’s a creative [process] for a performance or video, and I have to figure out what the looks will be.

“I show her different ideas, and we talk about it. Sometimes, figuring out what it’ll look like has already been done, and other times, it’s more spontaneous and collaborative.”

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What kind of input did you have with her current tour costumes? There is a lot of looks made by the best designers in the world.

“I worked very closely on every design aspect and every detail of the tour clothing for her, for her dancers, for her band, you know, everything. I worked really closely with all of the designers on the custom stuff, which was really fun.”

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April 24th, 2013

tourbook

Navy, check out the new Diamonds World Tour tour book in our gallery. The book is completely stunning! We love the design and the photos inside. Melissa for MTF Photography has taken many of the personal photos, which look amazing.

The graphics and illustration looks stunning and colorful, the Rihanna R’s and diamonds are so creative! The book can be bought for $25 at the arena the same night you’re attending your concert.

Make sure to take a look at all of the photos and special thanks to Victor who sent them to us!

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April 23rd, 2013

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On Monday night, Rihanna trotted out those ubiquitous radio smashes – some in medley form – as well as more than half of the songs on her current album, “Unapologetic,” and a handful of other favorites from her relatively young career.

No doubt she’s Queen Ri Ri at the moment, and the sold out, predominantly female audience at Philips Arena greeted her with the type of vocal adoration that signaled it didn’t matter what she did on stage – they just wanted to be in her presence.

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777

On the week leading to the release of her 7th album Unapologetic, Rihanna performed 7 shows in 7 cities in 7 days, bringing press and fans along for the ride – and the cameras were rolling the entire week.

On May 6th tune into FOX to watch the tour documentary Rihanna 777, and get the full 77-minute version on DVD May 7th here.

Make sure to watch both preview 1 and preview 2 of the 777 Tour documentary.

Pre-order the DVD now on Amazon.

Update – Roc Nation writes:

Rihanna’s current single “Stay” (featuring Mikky Ekko) from her worldwide 2 million-selling #1 album, Unapologetic, moves into its 10th Top 10 week on the Billboard Hot 100 and she makes history for becoming the first artist ever to garner ten number one songs on Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs radio airplay chart, the stage is set for the May 7th release of the RIHANNA 777 TOUR live documentary concert ON DVD featuring 77 minutes of raw and uncut material.

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After scoring 18 category appearances in 2011 and 13 more in 2012, “Diamonds” superstar Rihanna once again lands double-digit finalist slots in this year’s Billboard Music Awards, competing in 10 categories this year, including Top Artist.

Rihanna has already has won 18 BBMA’s and we hope she’ll score many this year as well. Check out the nominations below:

Top Artist
Top Female Artist
Top Hot 100 Artist
Top Radio Songs Artist
Top Social Artist
Top Streaming Artist
Top R&B Artist
Top R&B Album – Unapologetic
Top R&B Song – Diamonds
Top Dance Song – Where Have You Been

Billboard Music Awards finalists were based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital singles sales, radio airplay, touring, streaming and social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, VEVO, Spotify and other popular online destinations for music.

These measurements were tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Entertainment and Next Big Sound.

The 2013 Billboard Music Awards will air on ABC on May 19th. See full list of nominees on Billboard.com

April 22nd, 2013

In tallying her 10th leader, she passes Katy Perry for the most toppers in the chart’s 20-year history.

Rihanna becomes the first artist in the 20-year history of Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs radio airplay chart to tally 10 No. 1s, as “Stay,” featuring Mikky Ekko, rises 2-1.

Rihanna breaks a tie with Katy Perry, who’s notched nine No. 1s since her 2008 arrival; also impressively, Rihanna has rung up her No. 1 sum since just 2006, when “SOS,” her first leader, reached the summit. She’d last led with “We Found Love,” featuring Calvin Harris, for eight weeks, marking her longest command, in late 2011/early 2012.

The record for most No. 1s is the latest for Rihanna on Pop Songs. She previously established the marks for most entries (35) and top 10s (23) dating to the ranking’s Oct. 3, 1992, launch.

“Stay” also charges 11-7 on Adult Pop Songs, becoming her third top 10 on the list, and debuts at No. 30 on Adult Contemporary. (It’s reached No. 3 on the all-format airplay/sales/streaming-fueled Billboard Hot 100.)

Also notably, “Stay” is only the second piano-and-vocal-only No. 1 of the 259 songs to have ruled Pop Songs. The first? The song that “Stay” dethrones after three weeks at the summit, Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man.”

Here’s a recap of Rihanna’s record 10 Pop Songs No. 1s:

2006, “SOS” (one week at No. 1)
2008, “Take a Bow” (three)
2008, “Disturbia” (three)
2008, “Live Your Life” (T.I. feat. Rihanna) (two)
2010, “Rude Boy” (two)
2010, “Love the Way You Lie” (Eminem feat. Rihanna) (two)
2010, “Only Girl (In the World)” (three)
2011, “S&M” (one)
2011, “We Found Love” (Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris) (eight)
2013, “Stay” (Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko) (one to date)


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