International Style and Attractiveness Founder Rihanna and Renowned Artist Lorna Simpson Collaborate for ESSENCE’s January+February 2021 Situation Artistic Cover in Gorgeous Photographic Collage

NEW YORK–(Small business WIRE)–ESSENCE, the major media, technologies and commerce firm serving Black women of all ages, kicks off 2021 with a amazing January + February include artwork special. Famous artist Lorna Simpson collaborates with worldwide manner and beauty founder Robyn Rihanna Fenty (who not long ago launched Fenty Skin globally in shops in the U.S. and the U.K.) to reinterpret the narrative of modern day-day elegance in the lovely photographic address collage, Of Earth & Sky, and in images comprising a 12-webpage portfolio function within the January + February challenge. About the past 15 many years of her acclaimed a few-ten years profession, Simpson has produced collages that recontextualize images of Black ladies from classic webpages of Ebony and Jet magazines. Like all of Simpson’s celebrated works, these authentic pieces are much more than what satisfies the eye. [Click here for images.]

Simpson channels Rihanna as her muse throughout the stunning artistic rendering—reimagining the artist in a way that has by no means been seen before. Rihanna appears to be ethereal in designer items which include from her signature Savage X Fenty line as nicely as Prada, Givenchy, Hood by Air, Thelma West, Rick Owens and much more. Simpson states: “…I needed to make visuals of Rihanna to spot within the environments of resource elements from my archive. For the job to have the same type of remarkable visual intensity as my collage perform to date, I had to look at the environment and lights of particular supply products prior to arriving to established. Figuring out Rihanna’s charisma and commanding presence, my energy was then to be as existing and well prepared as possible to seize her exquisite performance for the camera…”

The package deal also attributes the piece, Anthems of Risk, prepared by Simpson’s daughter, author and actor Zora Simpson Casebere. She weighs in on how Rihanna helped shape her womanhood at an early age and how serving as a stand-in product on established for her mother was a complete-circle moment. She muses: “…At 13, I was deeply grateful that at a formative time in my everyday living, it was Rihanna’s voice and art that turned my portals to so quite a few concerns about sexuality, sexual exploration and sexual autonomy. Now, on established, I assisted my mom as a design as she explored how she may well later on spot Rihanna in the visible contexts she’d picked from classic Ebony publications, previous Associated Press photos and 19th-century lithographs of mineral specimens. When Rihanna arrived at the set—my 1st time viewing her in authentic life—I was mesmerized. She was the really definition of grace, charisma and influence. Putting on a outstanding Maximilian black headdress, she requested the track ‘Thick’ by DJ Selected, then achieved the digital camera with electrical power and possibility—power in how she moved her entire body by house, and likelihood in how she dismantled and moved over and above institutional boundaries…”

The stunning situation will also spend homage to Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris’ historic win with reflections by five influential Black women: Donna Brazile, Leah Daughtry, Karen Finney, Star Jones and Minyon Moore. In addition, the concern features an job interview with Barack Obama chatting about his new ebook and journey as the nation’s to start with Black president. Plus, iconic actress Cicely Tyson shares an eye-opening excerpt from her new memoir.

For extra on this difficulty, take a look at ESSENCE.com or decide up the January + February 2021 problem on newsstands upcoming week. (Photographic Collages, Lorna Simpson)

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