If the rumor circulated on the networks on Thursday, now it’s official: Johnny Depp will walk for Rihanna’s Savage Fenty brand. as confirmed the hollywood reporterThe American actor will take the stage at the lingerie brand’s 4th fashion show, which will be broadcast online on November 9 by first video.
In the past, many stars have walked Savage Fenty like Cindy Crawford or Erykah Badu in 2021. But with this appearance, Johnny Depp becomes the first man to take on the role of muse for the brand’s menswear collection.
He will parade on stage alongside models Cara Delevingne and Irina Shayk, actors Taraji P Henson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Winston Duke and Marsai Martin, but also artists Anitta and Burna Boy.
A controversial choice
This announcement comes five months after the highly publicized lawsuit between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. The latter was sentenced in June to pay 10 million dollars to her ex-husband, who accused her of defamation for an article in the Washington Post in 2018 in which he claimed to have been a victim of “domestic violence”. Amber Heard got the actor to pay her $2 million and will appeal.
Rihanna’s choice of Johnny Depp was criticized by many fans, the singer herself revealed in 2009 to have been a victim of domestic violence by her former partner, the artist Chris Brown.
Some also considered that this decision represented a form of “rehabilitation” for the actor who, since the end of the trial in June, released an album with the musician Jeff Beck, was offered the production of a biographical film about the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani -co-produced of Al Pacino – but also to offer the leading role in the next film by French director Maïwenn Joan of Barry about King Louis XV and his concubine.
Rihanna, for her part, made her big comeback in music at the end of October, leaving Lift me uptheir first single in six years, for the soundtrack of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The singer will also provide the halftime of Super Bowl LVII 2023.
In 2020, Savage Fenty’s second runway show was also controversial. In question, title used in the soundtrack of the program broadcast on Amazon. Entitled Condemnthis track, produced by French DJ, producer and singer Coucou Chloé, included time-lapse samples of a hadith, the words of the Prophet Muhammad.
Source: BFM TV
