"When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion"
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Her attraction to "the most interesting silhouette" points to an old couture truth - shape is story. A silhouette announces power, playfulness, menace, glamour, belonging, refusal. When she says she looks for something "a little off", she’s naming the productive imbalance that makes style legible as style. Perfection reads like compliance; the slight wrongness reads like authorship. It signals taste that can withstand scrutiny because it isn’t trying to disappear into consensus.
The repetition of "I have to" is revealing. This isn’t casual dressing; it’s compulsion, discipline, even branding. "Make it me" is less about authenticity as purity and more about signature as ownership. For a pop figure whose image has been parsed, sexualized, and commodified, insisting on the final edit is a quiet power move: if you’re going to look, you’ll look at my terms.
Context matters: Rihanna is an artist-turned-mogul who’s rewritten the celebrity-fashion relationship, not just wearing clothes but shifting markets (Fenty, Savage X Fenty) and redefining who gets centered. The "thrill" she describes is the payoff of that risk - the moment when the gamble becomes a language only you can speak, and everyone else has to learn it.
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Rihanna. (n.d.). When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-am-putting-looks-together-i-dare-myself-to-101643/
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Rihanna. "When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-am-putting-looks-together-i-dare-myself-to-101643/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-am-putting-looks-together-i-dare-myself-to-101643/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.



