Unstoppable
THE ROAD TO A RIHANNA cover is never especially direct, but getting to our destination this month—an astonishing Annie Leibovitz portfolio of the superstar enceinte, in Paris, at the Ritz, during a late Fashion Week night in March 2022—took more than a little ingenuity and nerve. “Rihanna has never been much for scheduling,” writes Vogue’s Chioma Nnadi in her accompanying profile, deploying what might be the understatement of 2022. Actually, none of us have been perfect with scheduling lately. A global health crisis has made quick work of best-laid plans. Just ask Vogue’s fashion department, where editors first pulled clothes from the spring collections for a Rihanna shoot then imagined in Los Angeles. When that shoot was moved to Barbados and set for December 2021, the team assembled a completely different…