Friday, January 15, 2021

Lorna Simpson & Rihanna Collaborate for Essence's January + February 2021 Artistic Issue

Rihanna & renowned artist Lorna Simpson collaborated for the January + February 2021 artistic cover of Essence magazine which hits newsstand next week. Lorna and Rihanna worked together on her feature to reimagined a modern day beauty in a photographic collage titled ''Of Earth & Sky.'' The 12-page portfolio collage shows the badgal as Lorna's muse and the end results is fantastic as you can see. Continue below to see the rest of the images from the collage and for more details and to read the full article about Lorna & Riri's collaboration, click HERE.

…I needed to create images of Rihanna to place within the environments of source materials from my archive. For the project to have the same kind of dramatic visual intensity as my collage work to date, I had to consider the atmosphere and lighting of specific source materials before arriving to set. Knowing Rihanna’s charisma and commanding presence, my effort was then to be as present and prepared as possible to capture her exquisite performance for the camera... - Lorna Simpson


SAVAGE x FENTY bra

MAXIMILIAN ensemble and AMINA MUADDI heels.



RICK OWENS jacket, SAVAGE x FENTY leggings and GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI boots



SAVAGE x FENTY


MAISON MARGIELA 


Credit: Essence / Photographic Collages, Lorna Simpson



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