Beauty/fashion icon Rihanna has taken to Instagram to announce the release of her visual biography collab with publishing house Phaidon. With 504 glossy pages and over 1,000 photos of the style queen, the self-titled tome is set to be a centerpiece for fans worldwide.
Coming in four fancy flavours:
Rihanna
Standard edition…almost boring compared to what comes next. £120.
Rihanna: Fenty x Phaidon
A shade fancier, this edition comes with a custom tabletop bookstand created in collaboration with the Haas Brothers, aptly titled “This S*it is Heavy.”
A steal at £140.
Rihanna: Luxury Supreme
Now you’re talking. Limited and numbered out of 1,000, this edition features an even more elaborate bookstand plated in 18-carat gold (colour) with a mirror-finish, with the book itself draped in laser-etched black fabric.
The book weighs in at 27kg, while the bookstand is another 30kg.
Shipping in November, this edition is £5,175.
Rihanna: Ultra Luxury Supreme
Apparently snapped by none other than Cardi B at a charity gala, this one-of-ten exercise in opulence comes with an incredible scupture dubbed ‘Stoner’, hand-carved from a single piece of eggshell white marble, measuring 42-inches high and weighing a shade under 1 ton.
Shipping would be hell, but you don’t have to worry as they’re all sold out. Considering Cardi paid $111,000 for her copy, probably for the best.
Rihanna talks to the creative process below, and all copies are available for an October/November launch respectively on therihannabook.com.
