CHIC IN REVIEW

Nicki Minaj, Rapper and Riccardo Tisci Muse, Is a Signed Model Now

With a Wilhelmina contract, hip-hop’s queen is now fashion ascendant.

March 29, 2017

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Eckhaus Latta

Spring is coming, which means new campaigns for all the brands. Eckhaus Latta knows better than most how to stand above the rest: by featuring real-life couples having real-life sex, some pixelation included for modesty.

Elson, Karen

Fashion’s favorite model-chanteuse is about to release her first album in seven years. But it’s not just the culmination of seven years — it’s a capstone on 20 years of writing, traveling, recording, falling in and out of love, and raising her two children, the sound of “figuring it all out.” Elson opens up in a new interview, here.

Good Wife, The

The Good Wife spinoff has some big shoes to fill — and how better to do so than with some stellar, presidential-shade-throwing looks?

Minaj, Nicki

Front-row head-turner, beloved of Riccardo Tisci, queen of the Billboard Hot 100, Wilhelmina model. Minaj joins the likes of Leona Lewis and Demi Lovato as a signee of Wilhelmina’s celebrity division, which means there will be plenty more fashion gigs to come.

Minter, Marilyn

The unlikely collaborator of Edie Parker’s Brett Heyman. The duo teamed up to adapt two of Minter’s vivid images to two different Edie Parker designs as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s Minter retrospective.

A Look Back at All of Marilyn Minter’s Pretty, Pathological Glamour

“Pop Rocks,” 2009.

Collection of Danielle and David Ganek, courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Wangechi Gold 4,” 2009.

Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94 New York, Regen Projects Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum

“100 Food Porn #9,” 1989-90.

Hort Family Collection, courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Coral Ridge Towers (Mom Smoking),” 1969.

Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody; courtesy of Brooklyn Museum

“Soiled,” 2000.

Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94 New York Regen Projects Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum

“Blue Poles,” 2007.

Private collection, Switzerland; courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Torrent,” 2013.

Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida; courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Clip,” 2005.

Collection of Gregory R. Miller and Michael Wiener, New York; courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Black Orchid,” 2012.

Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94 New York, Regen Projects Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum

“Coral Ridge Towers (Mom Making Up),” 1969.

Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody; courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Glazed,” 2006.

Collection of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn, New York; courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Big Girls,” 1986.

Collection of Bill Contente, New York, courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

Still from “Green Pink Caviar,” 2009.

Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94 New York, Regen Projects Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum

“Little Girls #1,” 1986.

Collection of Jean-Olivier Després, Paris; courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Coral Ridge Towers (Mom Smoking Extra Long),” 1969.

Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody; courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Orange Crush,” 2009.

Private collection, courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum

“Armpit,” 2006.

Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94 New York, Regen Projects Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum

“Not in These Shoes,” 2013.

Courtesy of the artist, Regen Projects Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum

“Rouge Baiser,” 1994.

Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94, and the Brooklyn Museum

Still from “Smash,” 2014.

Courtesy of the artist, Salon 94 New York Regen Projects Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum

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Rihanna

Really embracing the back-to-school aesthetic. First Harvard, then Fenty x Puma in a library, and now, Rihanna will be honored by Parsons alongside Eileen Fisher and Neiman Marcus at the design school’s annual benefit.

West, Kanye

Leaning in to the Calabasas aesthetic. West designed a team uniform for the Jenner clan by way of Adidas, and it sold out in five minutes. Everyone wants to live the Calabasas dream.

Like Will Ferrell in Elf, Kanye West just wants to bring joy to the world: