Rihanna’s innovativeness has blessed us all yet again.
Vogue reports the superstar and music mogul’s fashion line, announced a new collection of jewelry to highlight Black women on Thursday.
“Beauty has an infinite number of dimensions,” Fenty's caption, which accompanied sketches of the jewelry, read. Another Instagram post revealed The Cameo collection will include rings, earrings and a pendant that doubles as a brooch, British Vogue reports.
The jewelry’s price ranged from $340 to $530.
“The collection celebrates new standards of beauty through ancient craft of cameo jewelry,” Fenty said.
Vogue reports that the pieces, featuring Black women, “are rendered in black resin and glass” and “enhanced with tiny pearls and glass beads.”
According to Fenty’s website, cameos are works of art that date back to the Ancient, Renaissance and Neoclassical periods.
Vogue reports the origin of the word derives from Kame’o, a term used in the language of Kabbalah to signify a magical square. Merriam Webster links the language to a medieval and modern system of Jewish mysticism.
Vogue also notes that Pope Paul II collected cameos and Napoleon Bonaparte may have worn one at his wedding.
There are disputes about whether or not Black people in ancient times wore cameos, Vogue reports.
British Vogue reports that cameos were once worn as a symbol of intent that depicted the God of Love and expressed a woman’s sexuality.
“Everything Ri does is about making people feel beautiful and recognised, whatever shape, size or colour,” Rihanna’s Fenty collaborator Jahleel Weaver told Vogue recently. “She has so much to say and so many different vehicles for expression, that the possibilities seem endless.”
The cameos were shot by Nigerian photographer Ruth Ossai. Much of her Instagram page focuses on Black fashion in different contexts.
Rihanna has stayed plenty busy as an entrepreneur this holiday season, as Blavity previously reported. Along with her Fenty lines, she released a book in October that features more than 1,000 images documenting her life and family.
