Rihanna at the 2014 Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards
Rihanna honored for mode at annual CFDA awards
Rihanna was among the manner-axial honorees Mon at the almanac Council of Manner Designers of America awards, which also laurels the year's summit designers.
Manner rules are made to be broken, the 26-year-one-time told a glittering crowd of fashion industry leaders, and her outfit dramatically conveyed that message: a sheer fishnet gown, sparkling with thousands of embedded crystals, that left niggling underneath to the imagination.
The singer cemented her function as a fashion luminary by receiving the 2014 Style Icon Award from the Quango of Fashion Designers of America. Her bays was presented by Anna Wintour, the powerful Vogue editor, who said that with Rihanna, "the indicate is to be audacious -- fifty-fifty jaw-dropping or push-pushing."
Accepting the laurels, Rihanna spoke of her origins in Barbados, where "I didn't have a lot of access to fashion." But, she said: "Style has ever been my defense mechanism." Even equally a child, she told the crowd, she used to call up: "She tin can beat me, but she tin't trounce my outfit."
"I tin compensate for all my weaknesses with my manner," she said, adding: "At that place are rules, but rules are meant to be broken."
Also honored at the annual CFDA ceremony at Lincoln Center were a number of tiptop designers. Joseph Altuzarra won the womenswear award, and the menswear prize went to Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, the duo behind the Public School label. Sisters Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen of The Row won the accessories laurels.
The international award went to Raf Simons of Dior, and the CFDA lifetime accomplishment accolade went to designer Tom Ford, who quipped that he hoped information technology didn't spell the end of his career.
"Delight have me back in another 25 years," Ford joked. "I promise I'll vesture a toupee and walk with a cane."
An emotional high point of the ceremony was the bestowing of the prestigious Founders Honor to Bethann Hardison, a former model and modeling agent who has been a vocal champion for variety on runways.
She was introduced by model Naomi Campbell, who choked upward when she described her admiration for Hardison. When Hardison came onstage to accept her trophy, so did 16 models of color, continuing behind her and smiling. She spoke passionately of the need for diverse runways -- "just let them model," she said -- and added that things were improving throughout the industry on that score.
The annual CFDA show, hosted this year by director and screenwriter John Waters, always draws a mix of style insiders and Hollywood. This year, i of the biggest names was Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o ("12 Years a Slave" and also newly bandage in the next "Star Wars" picture show), who presented the womenswear award to Altuzarra.
Nyong'o, who has become equally famous for her choices on the ruby-red carpet as her skyrocketing acting career, told the crowd that if in that location was 1 matter she had learned in a yr of moving-picture show festivals and awards shows, "it is the power of mode." She wore a cropped Suno jumpsuit, in multi-colored stripes.
Other Hollywood stars in attendance included Blake Lively in a short Michael Kors dress, and Emmy Rossum in a green chiffon J. Mendel gown. Greta Gerwig wore a bright orange Zac Posen gown.
But none made as large a splash equally Rihanna, in her translucent outfit designed by Adam Selman that was embedded with more than 200,000 Swarovski crystals. The gown was accompanied by matching, elbow-length gloves and a glittering headscarf.
Speaking of Rihanna before the prove, designer Posen called the popular star a manner take a chance-taker who skillfully melds scarlet carpet glamour with a rebellious streak.
"She takes risks and she marches to her own drum and she knows what she likes," Posen told The Associated Press.
Rihanna also has a great appreciation for designers, Posen added: "That'due south why people love to dress her."
Also singing Rihanna'south praises was popular designer Alexander Wang, a nominee for both the womenswear and accessories awards.
"I love my daughter RiRi," he said. "She'south fearless. She has guts. Even in sweatpants, she owns information technology!"
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