Luxury brands and retailers are increasingly collaborating with
celebrities, including style bloggers and Instagram stars, to help design
collections and jazz up their wares.
The latest example of this is Rihanna, who staged her designer lingerie
show for New York Fashion Week on Tuesday to an audience where phones and
cameras have been banned.
That is because the highly anticipated “Savage X Fenty” fashion show
unveiling her fall/winter 2019 latest looks will stream exclusively on Amazon
Prime Video to more than 200 countries beginning Sept. 20, ten days later.
Known for her daring, colorful looks on the red carpet, the Barbadian singer
has become an increasingly influential force in the fashion world, and
especially so since pairing up with luxury group LVMH to launch a beauty line.
LVMH followed up on the partnership with the launch of a new luxury brand
with Rihanna in June – the first time in over 30 years the acquisitive group,
home to major names like Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton, had started a label
from scratch. It has given few financial details of the venture, also named
Fenty.
The brand will mostly be sold online or through temporary pop-up stores,
and will revolve around small collections that are rapidly renewed, a model
increasingly followed by luxury labels new and old to entice younger shoppers.
The Rihanna show, which is not linked to LVMH in any way, also feature
music performances by artists including DJ Khaled and Halsey and “special
appearances” by models Cara Delevigne, Bella and Gigi Hadid, actress Laverne
Cox among others.
Media and attendees were told that photography and videography are
prohibited inside the venue, and that cell phones will be locked in a case
during the runway.
