A lot has been made from the so-called “wealthy mother aesthetic.” That’s, an internet-driven pattern which revolves round photos of Kelly Rutherford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore, and Gisele Bündchen carrying various shades of white, camel and beige with iPhones clamped to their arms. These are girls with locations to go, folks to see and parent-teacher associations to run, their four-wheel life an embodiment of the age-old adage that girls can–and will–have all of it.
Liberated from the onerous prices of childcare and the chug of home labour, the wealthy mother proves it’s doable to stability life as a glamorous skilled and an attentive matriarch dressing for the boardroom, but additionally the categorical goal of gossiping at an U11 soccer match in upstate New York. See: Laura Dern’s character in Large Little Lies. It is a position that Rihanna–a billionaire mom of two, who’s at the moment working in the direction of an Asian enlargement of her Fenty Magnificence empire–has performed on varied events. (The Dries Van Noten coats, the throw-it-all-in Bottega Veneta clutches.)
However the musician-mogul took the “wealthy mother aesthetic” to its logical conclusion when she was photographed in Santa Monica final weekend, wearing a tweed Gucci jacket and wide-legged Bottega Veneta denims with a diminutive Alaïa purse and a pair of ladylike Gucci kitten heels. She regarded like a “wealthy grandma”: largely due to that behemoth crystal brooch, but additionally due to the honey-blonde pixie lower that she has been debuting since celebrating her thirty sixth in Turks and Caicos. The truth that Rihanna will not be, actually, a wealthy grandmother is irrelevant, it’s about channelling the spirit of what these phrases may imply. Dwelling a sluggish lifetime of all-inclusive journey, garlanded in heirloom jewels and slipping a handful of twenties into the palm of a resort busboy must you occur to be in a great temper.
