These are photos of Rihanna in Beverly Hills on Monday. She’s wearing a body hugging white dress with no bra. This is something we’ve come to expect from RiRi. She often walks around in very sheer tops with no bra underneath. We’ve seen RiRi’s bra rebellion many times, but it is notable as one of the topics that Rihanna discussed during her new interview with Vogue.

We already covered Rihanna’s third Vogue cover that arrived with a budget shoot. The interview is almost as budget but is much more endearing. Rihanna actually seems pretty sweet here. She repeatedly tries to dress the journo up as “Rihanna” and fails miserably. I mean no shade against the journo at all. Rihanna can wear anything — even sweats with heels — and look amazing (if slightly trashy). Most people cannot look hot in sweats, but Rihanna tries valiantly to make it work on the journalist. RiRi also confesses to getting most of her jewelry from Claire’s boutique. I have semi-fond 1980s memories of Claire’s. I got my ears pierced there and gleefully walked out into the mall food court with my dad. Then I passed out. The rest is history, and so is Rihanna’s discussion:

Shirt or bra, not both: “If I’m wearing a top, I don’t wear a bra. If I’m wearing a bra, I just wear a bra.”

Statement jewelry only: “My jewelry’s all fake — from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados. Her shop’s called FAB-U-LUS,”

Her notorious selfies: “Instagram is my way of communicating to the world. When I’m on tour, I keep fans in the loop. I don’t really think about it too much. Literally, I can be sitting in a car and be bored, so I do a selfie just because I’m bored. Or if my dog is running around in circles and I think that’s funny, I put it on Instagram. I follow girls from the Middle East. It gives you ideas.”

Her latest weave: “It’s not my hair, but the girl who donated it, she’s the bomb. Black girls never let anyone see this,” she adds, pulling apart the locks at the back of her head to show me the intricate workings of the false hair, which is woven into a net attached to her own. “I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‘I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!’ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.”

Abandoning LA for NYC: “I’ve downsized. I want a smaller closet. I want simpler. I want to just take it back to what’s important. When I’m on tour, if I walk out of the hotel to go to Starbucks, it’s like, thousands of fans are walking there with me. It’s a lot. And that’s why I don’t do much on tour. I just hide out in my hotel.”

She loves 4-inch heels: “I can dance in them. It’s not about pain. It’s about the commitment. I say to myself, ‘I want to look like this,’ and worry about the pain later. I’ve had nights I had to tiptoe home and the balls of my feet wouldn’t even allow me to stand.”

Her personal style: “More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool. I love baggy things. I wear men’s clothes, men’s shoes, oxfords, creepers. When I was thirteen or fourteen, I didn’t want to wear what my mom wanted me to wear. I was very much a boy in my style, my demeanor. All my friends were guys. I loved things that boys did. I loved being easy with my clothes. I loved wearing hats and scarves and snapbacks on my head. It was my way of rebelling. I wanted to dress like my brother. After a while, it was just easier for Mom to dress us both the same. We wore the same jeans, the same T-shirts.”

On her reputation: “I don’t go out of my way to be a rebel or to have that perception, but a lot of the decisions I make, a lot of the direction I want to move, is against the grain, or against society’s tight lane, and I’m aware of that sometimes. It might not be fitting with the norm, but that’s OK for me.”

[From Vogue]

Rihanna’s statement about following girls from the Middle East makes me wonder if that’s why she thought it was okay to pose hard outside a mosque a few months ago. That was not one of her brighter moments. Here’s the Vogue cover again and some assorted moments from Rihanna’s recent street style. She really can wear almost anything.

Photos courtesy of Vogue & WENN