It was announced back in July that Rihanna would be the new celebrity face of Armani Jeans. Now that New York Fashion Week is officially on and popping, we’re seeing the initial fruits of that labor.
The first image of Rihanna for Armani Jeans was released this morning via the fashion house’s official Facebook page. The ad features Rihanna sporting a short blonde wig, wearing a black cropped sweater, and black Armani jeans (natch).
NYC Photographer Steven Klein gave his talents for the gritty, visually interesting ad. But does it make you want to go out and buy a pair of jeans?
Famed songwriters Frank Ocean and James Fauntleroy join forces for the track, “Dying For Your Love.” Both writers have gained a lot of success and acclaim among their peers in the industry, so it’s no surprise that while pursuing careers as artists, they would work together.
Frank and James both have put out street LP’s that have garnered much success, so it’ll be interesting to see what comes of them in the next few months.
With Lil Wayne selling a million records or 900,000+ units (depending on your source), many onlookers are in disbelief in the rapper’s album sale success. In so much disbelief that people are pointing fingers at his Young Money label for allegedly buying most of the tallied copies of Tha Carter IV.
The CEO of YMCMB/Cash Money Records, Birdman has been getting heat for supposedly buying most of the album units of the chart topping project. The 42 year-old entrepreneur stopped by Sway Calloway’s morning radio show and addressed the rumors:
“Nah, man, that really don’t make no sense. Why would we do that? I press and distribute ‘em. Ain’t no need for me to buy ‘em. That’s hustling backwards; we ain’t in it for that. I ain’t ever been a part of that type of scheme to be buyin’ records. We don’t do that, homey. We be working too hard to be — that don’t go with what we do. We truly what we do. We’re real about what we do, we work hard every day at it, and we work for the people. That’s what we do music for: for people. And we appreciate the love they give us back. But no such thing as me buying no CDs. I wouldn’t even play it like that.” [Source]
Hmm. You do know that If they did buy copies of the album, it would be an easy tax write-off…I’m just sayin’…
Actress Sanaa Lathan gets her model on in yet another magazine. The Yale graduate is on the cover of Today’s Black Woman magazine. In the issue, the Love & Basketball actress talked about her favorite traits in a man and how she manages to keep herself motivated career-wise:
On what she looks for in her significant man:
Faithfulness, integrity, loyalty and honesty. It’s really important for me to have somebody who stimulates me mentally. I love having long talks and laughing.
On what motivated her to keep working as an actress:
Now, I don’t have to keep myself motivated. I just feel so appreciative to be doing what I’m doing and to have had the level of success that I’ve had. For me, my daily practice is of gratitude and constantly putting my focus on what’s going well. [Source]
