A$AP Rocky may have just been "chillin" with Rihanna when they were
spotted together in New York City in August, but it was all for the
cameras. The duo's "Fashion Killa" video is officially out, and in it,
the twosome crush on each other... and designer duds.
The video, premiered on GQ, follows the two artists as they hang around
an apartment before painting the town red, going on an after-hours
shopping spree in several high-end stores. The playful couple gets
flirty not only with each other but also the couture they try on for
each other.
When they aren't playing with the clothes, they're snuggling on the
street. But throughout the video, there is yet another, more mysterious
storyline. A masked man follows the pair around town. At the end of the
video, he spray-paints the word "art" on the side of a building.
The video was directed by A$AP Rocky and hip-hop fashion maven Virgil
Abloh. Earlier this week, the rapper opened up to "106 & Park" about
enlisting Rihanna to play his onscreen love interest.
"She's a fashion killa in my eyes. I respect her jigginess. I respect
her fashion sense so that's why I used her as a female. It's about art,
the whole video, we wanted to base it off art," he explained, before
breaking down who the masked graffiti artist is. "It's this famous, well
he's infamous, he's a tagger. His name is Kidult. We use his art and we
use her art for being a fashion killa and made this conceptual video.
Fashion is art."
He's never been shy about opening up about loving Rihanna for her sense
of style. Last December, when rumors had it they were a couple, Rocky
denied a romance, but did gush about her. "She has a lot of style, and I
think that's what she saw in me and what she liked, because she saw
that I was eclectic with the way I did my music and my style was
different," he said. "I really think it was more she admired me as an
artist, and the fact that I'm handsome helped."
