Rihanna on Cover of February W

Our current favorite patron saint of celebrity fashion, Rihanna, is on the cover of the February issue of W, wearing a white Gucci dress (click after the flip to see it). She is profiled in the issue and the reporter takes her stab at sorting out the Chris affair. I would have liked to have seem more about her views on fashion, but I suppose that doesn’t move magazines as well as young-female angst does. We do discover that Rihanna got a new tattoo (sigh!), which reads: “never a failure always a lesson,” and it’s backwards so she can see it in the mirror. And there is line or two devoted to her take on fashion:

“My stylist Mariel Haenn and I always try to do something sexy but never too girly—we always try to put a little toughness in there,” she says. Today she is wearing harem-pant overalls, which she has paired with a black headpiece that can only be described as a hairnet, and which she somehow manages to make look cool. She explains that the line “I’m such a f—in’ lady” from Rated R’s single “Wait Your Turn” has become like a mantra for her, aesthetically and otherwise.

If you visit the site, you’ll find the article, additional photos and a behind-the-scenes video shoot as well.

See the full length version of the above and the cover shot after the flip.