Rihanna can pretty much get away with wearing anything … except maybe this.



On Monday night, the “Stay” singer donned one of her own fashion creations – “double top” jeans – at a party in London to promote her new River Island collection, and it had heads turning for all the wrong reasons.

According to the item’s description on River Island’s site, the unique waist – which is made to look like two pairs of jeans layered on top of each other – is a “cool take on mixing denim” that is a “huge spring trend ready-made,” although we’d have to disagree.

But, then again, what do we know? (According to a couple of fashion experts we spoke with, we’re fashion illiterate.)

Jay McCarroll, who won the first season of “Project Runway,” tells omg! that “double top” jeans, while not his personal design aesthetic, are already a popular street trend, and that Rihanna’s take “comes across as sort of, dare I say, refined and actually sort of cute. At the end of the day, you can't knock a gal for pursuing any business opportunity that comes her way. I just wish I had this idea ... she's probably going to make a zillion dollars off of those jeans!"

And he’s not alone. Another “Project Runway” alum, Michael Costello, is also not immediately saying “Auf Wiedersehen” to Rihanna’s polarizing look.

“I like how she can set trends and make them look so easy to wear when sometimes you see them in a department store and wonder, ‘Who in the world would wear that?’” he tells omg! “Rihanna, I believe, is really a style icon and pushes the boundaries of fashion and adds her own eclectic unique style and personality to everything she does including her fashion line. If you ask me, the double jeans work for her.”

However, Costello adds that this doesn’t mean they’d look the same way on the everyday woman. “The cut of the jeans is more likely to accommodate women who are a size 0-2,” he explains. “Even if they are a loose-fit denim cut jean, the design is implicated to compliment the model body.”

That would explain why the “double top” jeans, which retail for $150, are sold-out on River Island’s website through size 10 U.K., which in America translates to sizes 2, 4, and 6.

What do you think of the “double top” look? And would you pay that kind of money for the fad?

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It doesn't look hot at all!
$150 is almost insane.

Is she mc hammer? And $150......i can buy at least 15 jeans with that

adaobi123: Is she mc hammer? And $150......i can buy at least 15 jeans with that

Abi o. She dey form Mc hammer.
She should learn from Tonto Dikeh and Maya2pretty, on how to be a fashionista.

ogugua88: [size=13pt]You think? It looks so odd... and for $150 a pair? I'd have to pass. That's expensive foolishness lol.[/size]

A lot of what we call fashion nowadays were considered odd in the old days but today they're the norm. This can also become a norm. But god forbid will i wear something like that personally. I'll leave it to the mental juveniles.

CFCfan:

Abi o. She dey form Mc hammer.
She should learn from Tonto Dikeh and Maya2pretty, on how to be a fashionista.

tonto dikeh ?? no no

adaobi123:
tonto dikeh ?? no no

Maybe she could learn from Rokiatu or Ogugua88.

CFCfan:

Maybe she could learn from Rokiatu or Ogugua88.

much better

What!
Is she going to the farm with that cloth? Dz s what my grandma use to wear to farm.
And they priced it $150. It's a mistake, it's N1,500.
But she's not looking bad in the pic

ogugua88: [size=13pt]You think? It looks so odd... and for $150 a pair? I'd have to pass. That's expensive foolishness lol.[/size]

You should go tell that to the users of those 'Beats By Dre' headphones.

Ejiné:

You should go tell that to the users of those 'Beats By Dre' headphones.

I know, right. People can be easily hoodwinked on hype.

I have never seen this type of odd and embarrassing jeans!!
Actually she is gorgeous but only because of this poor-quality jeans,She looks very ugly.

90's much? But not in that "retro is cool" way

Definitely not hot, but it looks cool anyway....$150 is a quite lot, but then, it's comin' 4rm her collections....

Makes my eyes water. Looks like a continuous deja vu or a mirage.

Lol

Okiki_Oluwa: What!
Is she going to the farm with that cloth? Dz s what my grandma use to wear to farm.
And they priced it $150. It's a mistake, it's N1,500.
But she's not looking bad in the pic

Nice one rihanna

[quote author=ogugua88]Rihanna can pretty much get away with wearing anything … except maybe this.



At least she is putting on a cloth unlike going to the party with little or no clothing at all that she is known for.

Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish,rubbish. Next!

adaobi123: Is she mc hammer? And $150......i can buy at least 15 jeans with that

wetin na? e no dey possible unless na bendan selet.

Nawa ooo,all these celebs think they can get away with anything.
Morever,the top jeans look okrika though for me.

Lord_Reed: Makes my eyes water. Looks like a continuous deja vu or a mirage.

Hehehe...ur comment got me cracking up,cos it really IS like deja vu:wen u look at her slowly from d head down,u see d first jean top then ur eyes move on to see yet another jean top and u're like: "wait...I've seen dis somewhere b4"

Hyping!
Nothing else

ogugua88: [size=13pt]You think? It looks so odd... and for $150 a pair? I'd have to pass. That's expensive foolishness lol.[/size]

take a deeper look

adaobi123: Is she mc hammer? And $150......i can buy at least 15 jeans with that

chei see wetin okirika don turn you to,N500 okirika jeans no let you know say jeans na N7000 for market.

Damn

Not fitting @tal, nva knew she has a knock knee...This a no fashion statement, Its dat a baggy pants or wat? Think a tyt one wud b fairly ok

Geniveve ur turn