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"  Fashion designer and Jay Z song title Tom Ford recently did an interview with Style.com in which he praised the greatest marketing force in the fashion industry: Rihanna&amp;#039;s dearly departed Instagram account, @badgalriri. &amp;quot;Something new is happening that I&amp;#039;m just clueing into now \u2014 this probably won&amp;#039;t go down well \u2014 but customers don&amp;#039;t care any more about reviews or hard-copy publications,&amp;quot; Ford said. &amp;quot;They care what picture Rihanna\u00A0just Instagrammed while she&amp;#039;s naked in bed, what new shoes she has on, how she&amp;#039;s talking about them. That&amp;#039;s what they respond to.&amp;quot; Rihanna herself agrees with him, and posted a link to his quote with the comment, &amp;quot;He gets it!&amp;quot; While it sounds kind of crazy (and fashion critics the world over are probably shaking their heads in disbelief right now), Ford&amp;#039;s not totally wrong. Even\u00A0Vogue, that alleged Bible of fashion, devoted its March cover story to Rihanna&amp;#039;s personal style and sent a fancy writer to shop with RiRi, in hopes that civilians might learn to pair designer sweatpants with silk T-shirts. Sadly, @badgalriri is no more, so the masses might have to look elsewhere for fashion inspiration\u00A0\u2014 like to Rihanna&amp;#039;s Twitter, where she&amp;#039;s still posting candids of herself in amazing outfits. Long live @badgalriri! [via E! Online] RELATED: 26 Amazing Rihanna Quotes How to Dress Like Rihanna If Real People Come to Work Dressed Like Rihanna Follow Eliza on Twitter.\u00A0 Photo credit: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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