Rihanna Named ‘Woman Of The Year’ By Vogue Magazine

Rihanna has been voted ‘Woman of The Year’ by Italian Vogue magazine.

Beside arousing curiosity among the readers (mostly interested in finding out who ranks last rather than first), charts also have the unarguably aseptic quality of numbers and figures. Everything and everybody is quantified, categorized and eventually measured up against a scale of values. At Vogue.it, we have decided to leave this sterile pastime to the guys at Forbes and went straight to the core of the matter by voting her woman of the year. Who is the lucky one? There is no point in beating about the bush: it’s her, Rihanna, once a rising star of the r’n’b scene, she is currently the undisputed best contender to the role of queen of pop. You might wonder – wasn’t that supposed to be Lady Gaga’s title? Not, quite
In terms of popularity and fame, as of now Rihanna has stolen Lady Gaga’s Facebook fan-collector crown outsmarting the blond rival by a staggering one hundred-thousand fans (to be completely honest, on Twitter Gaga is still the winner with 11 millions fan, but we are sure Rihanna can catch up).

Her career has always been based on the cunning use of sexiness and provocation: from the silver-nude number sported on the video of the hit single Umbrella to the “scandalous” video for S&M. Although her career has also been marked by her involvement in numerous charity projects: she has joined and supported campaigns for the fight against breast cancer as well as the fight against world famine but also offered her help to ill or less fortunate people such as the very young Jasmina Anema who saw the pop star on the frontline in the search for a bone marrow donor to save her from leukaemia – unfortunately in vain.
May Rihanna enjoy her well-deserved title as for us; we can’t but wait –impatiently – for her next brilliant music hit.
But we also like Rihanna for her nonconformity, which shows in her tattoos as well: as a matter of fact, the singer’s ink is remarkable. A gun tattooed on her thigh, a few starts on the back of her neck, a musical note on her ankle, a small cross on her collar bone, the symbol for Pisces behind her left ear and the word “love” on the middle finger of her left hand, as well as the brand new hawk on the ankle. Constantly growing from an artistic point of view, Rihanna is our woman of the year because of what she does. But most of all because of who she is.
Simone Tempia (Vogue Italy)