Rihanna
The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Rihanna reads as The Disruptor because she enters established industries and rewrites their operating assumptions. Fenty Beauty's 40-shade foundation launch in 2017 functioned as a structural intervention, compelling competitors to raise their standards for inclusive representation. Savage X Fenty applied the same logic to lingerie, challenging norms around body and identity.
“I have forgiven him. It took me a long time. I was angry a long time. I felt like this is not my fault. This is not me doing this and still I have to like. Worry and you know, all those kinds of resentful, I had a grudge, I was dark, I was angry and I was coming out in my music. I was coming out my clothes.”
“The hardest is being lonely That's the hardest. The loneliest. Is for me as an individual, I have a thing where I don't want people to think I'm weak or look at me as a victim. So I don't like to tell people when I'm going through something because it's human nature to always keep that in mind when you see the person.”
“I didn't know how important those days would be. I just didn't know what else to do. Trust for the making. I didn't know what else to do. I was in hearing a lot of good things. You know, we knew she was sick for a long time. So we were grieving her as she was alive. So in the end, it got really bad.”
“Okay, I'll tell you some things. I love to have fun. I love to be spontaneous. I'm intrigued by things that are a little adventurous. Things are a little unknown. I'm very black and white when it comes to my business, but I do allow a gray area in my personal life. I want people to feel good.”
Wikiquote: “Public record read”
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