Rihanna struggled to design her SS 17 Fenty x Puma collection for men

OHMYGOSSIP — Rihanna’s biggest “challenge” with her latest Fenty x Puma collection was designing for men.
The 28-year-old musician, who launched her second fashion range for the sportswear giant during Paris Fashion Week, which took place at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in the eight arrondissement in the French capital on Thursday (29.09.16), has revealed she struggled to create a collection suitable for males as well as females, although she has admitted she wears men’s clothes “all the time”.
Speaking about her latest Spring/Summer 2017 capsule, the brunette beauty – who was announced as the creative director of the sportswear giant in 2014 – said: ” The other challenge was having to design part of the collection for men. I ended up just going back to myself for that, because, you know, I wear men’s clothes all the time. So I thought to myself, ‘Just design what you like to wear.’
“I thought it would be a challenge, and it was! But I enjoyed it, and I hope that people do, too.”
And the ‘Work’ hitmaker has revealed her recent capsule was created with the late Queen of France Marie Antoinette’s gym attire in mind.
She explained: “I chose Paris because I wanted people to feel the entire tone of the new collection.
“I wanted them to feel like this is what Marie Antoinette might wear to the gym, or play tennis in. I imagined it like that, and I hope people receive it in a fun way.
“[It was] a very salon-style show–very French–and that idea was inspired by those old Christian Dior shows from back in the day, when he would show in a small room. When I went to the Dior headquarters and heard the story of how Christian Dior used to show in those small spaces, it stunned me, because Dior is such a huge brand.”
And Rihanna has described the fashion range, which included a satin pink corset, green playsuit, a pale rose-coloured floral zip-up romper and a pure white full-length mac in an array of natural earthy colours, as “super regal”.
She told Vogue.com: “It’s super-regal and a perfect mix of street- and sportswear.
“It was definitely a departure from the first collection; that collection had a much darker tone to it. To me, Spring should feel like something fresh, even though I’m not going to stop wearing black altogether. But I didn’t want it to be super-bubbly, so I kept it a bit street – everything was super-sporty and definitely highly influenced by 18th-century French culture. ”

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