Rihanna, the richest singer in the world and not for singing
The artist, who has already surpassed Madonna or Beyoncé in income, achieves most of her fortune thanks to her expanding beauty and fashion firms, according to 'Forbes'
Rihanna is more than a singer. Today, the Barbadian is a global artist who has managed to turn her intuition into a magic wand of King Midas and do business with almost everything she can think of: clothes, makeup and, of course, music. However, it is not this aspect that brings you the most income. As Forbes magazine has announced, Rihanna is already "the richest musical artist in the world", amassing a fortune of 600 million dollars, that is, more than 532 million euros.
According to the publication, Rihanna has surpassed the personal fortunes of artists who have been on stage for decades. At 31, she started her professional career a little more than 15 years ago and has already surpassed Beyoncé in wealth (with 400 million dollars, although thanks to her husband, rapper Jay Z, she adds another thousand), Céline Dion (with 450 million) and even the legendary Madonna (who accumulates about 570 million).
Interestingly, most of Rihanna's income in recent months has come not from her music, but from Fenty Beauty, her makeup brand. Created in September 2017 and with enormous public success, in its first 15 months it had a turnover of 570 million euros, according to France Press. A success that has catapulted her into this line of millionaires and that is parallel, for example, to that of Kylie Jenner. The Kardashian's little sister, with a makeup line now extended to a facial treatment, has become the world's youngest billionaire at 21, even beating the record set years earlier by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.
Rihanna's case is similar. Although successful in music, she has not released an album for three years. The last one, ANTI, is from 2016, and after that has come its explosion in other facets. In fact, now one of his great triumphs has been his line of lingerie Savage x Fenty, which he wanted to create for all types of women, skin tones, bodies and sizes - with almost a hundred different pieces - a year ago and that has become an absolute success. All this accompanied by multiple collaborations with the most diverse brands that reveal its many facets: she has been both creative director of Puma (with models that sell out in half an hour) and creator of several lines of shoes with Manolo Blahnik, she has participated in The remake of Ocean's Eleven, he has created jeans and underwear for Armani and has created jewelery for the exclusive Chopard house.
So varied is her curriculum that the great conglomerates of her luxury have had their eye on her. LVMH, the largest in the world and which brings together in its portfolio firms such as Louis Vuitton, Dior, Loewe or Givenchy, has announced that the Barbadian will have a complete brand with them, which will make her the first black designer woman in have their own line in the house controlled by the Arnault family. As the fashion editor of The New York Times, Vanessa Friedman, said after her announcement, Fenty - as her brand will be called, as will her last name - "is the first brand of the Instagram era endorsed by one of the three great groups that so far they have defined the era of luxury. " Synonymous with success. And of many more millions.
